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Stallman Clarifies Position RE:Gnome & .Net

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-clear dept.

RMS ? has sent The Register an email in which he corrects their 'inaccurate' representation of his stance on the GNOME & .NET issue. He states, "I am pretty sure something was garbled in the quotation which has me asking Miguel to 'explain himself to us', because those words would be explicitly confrontational, and I did not have any wish to do that."

5 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. Call me picky - by rosewood · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    - but - shouldnt that quote have been italicized?

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  2. Stallman Caught in Logical Contradiction? by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stallman says:

    "Another misleading point in the article was the reference to GNOME as an "open source project." The Open Source Initiative has the right to define a criterion for open source and note the fact that GNOME fits it, but GNOME has no connection with them. GNOME, like the GNU Project as a whole, is part of the free software movement. GNOME is a free software project par excellence, because it was started in 1997 as a defense against the threat to our freedom posed by the (at the time, since changed) non-free license of Qt."

    But right there on gnome.org, I see otherwise!

    "GNOME is part of the GNU project, and is free software (some times referred to as open source software.)"

    So, is GNOME open source software or isn't? On one hand Stallman denies it, and on the other it's confirmed on the project web page. Theories:

    (1) Stallman is lying
    (2) Stallman is out-of-touch with what-is-gnome


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  3. In other words... by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I saw that people were getting tired of my irritating childishness and my desire to stamp my own ownership on the concept of non-ownership, so I backed off until I could find another way to impose my will on developers who wishes to associate themselves with open source, which I of course invented and I of course own."

  4. Re:Straight from the horse's mouth.... by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, really. We have two anarchists on the board of OSI, and somehow we reject freedom?? HELLO?? Earth to RMS?? Anybody home?
    -russ

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  5. Re:The snowball effect.... by targo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've said from day one that The Register cannot be trusted. They are fanatics...

    If their fanatism is the key then how exactly is Slashdot any different?
    Oh wait, it isn't...

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