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RMS Accused Of Attempting Glibc Hostile Takeover

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-are-never-dull dept.

Bram Stolk sent a bit in thats been floating around lately where Ulrich Drepper, glibc maintainer announces the new version, and sidetracks to discuss an an RMS takeover attempt and how he feels about it. He raises several good points and I tend to agree with him. The FSF has done, and continues to do so much good, but more and more tension continues to grow between the extreme free speech faction and the more moderate folks. People have asked my opinion, and I'll just leave it by saying I don't prefix "Linux" with those 3 little letters and a slash even tho I've been asked.

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  1. What I'd like to know... by denzo · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    is why can't gcc 3 be used to compile this new version of glibc? From the release notes:

    And while we are talking about compilers: gcc 3 can NOT be used.


    I'm getting tired of these specific version dependencies (especially in Qt/KDE apps). :P
  2. Hostile Takeovers... by Jacques+Chester · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hmm ... that would be like using someone elses slashdot account because they didnt log out on a public computer ...

    and his desc says he likes masquarading as a hacker too...

    hmm I could use the +1 ... but nah...

    Wonder if he will be more careful next time...

    --

    Classical Liberalism: All your base are belong to you.

  3. My favorite part :) by ilkahn · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I guess my favorite part of the link, is the first reply in the thread... by ac:
    Before this page clutters up with 87 flames and counter-flames, I'm hoping to hear from other people with DIRECT experience like this. This kind of puts a damper on the positive things that happen.

    I'm hoping Slashdot doesn't link this, and bring out the hoards of IE-using dual-boot armchair warriors (who only have Linux because they found an "ISO" on Gnutella).
    :) This is posted with IE... I use Linux for my servers, thank you very much... I use MS Products to the peak of their abilities, browsing the web. And nothing else :)