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The Stallman Factor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the happy-hacking-and-hostile-naming-conventions dept.

An anonymous reader sent us linkage to a LinuxWorld story about Stallman's Position in the Linux World. Talks a lot about RMS's tacticts for getting his acronym included with the kernel's name. This has been a long-running debate, but personally I just don't care. I respect the GNU Project's involvement. But I'm not gonna spit out extra syllables and keystrokes just to appease anyone.

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  1. I see by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I respect this artist's skill, but I'm not gonna pay for a painting because I can just download this jpeg.

    I respect this musician's lyrical ability, but I'm not gonna buy their album because I can download their MP3z.

    I respect these actors, actresses, and the director who made them do their thing, but I'm not gonna pay for a movie ticket because I'm sticking it to the man with DivX.

    Stallman isn't asking you to pay jack shit, he's asking for a freaking single syllable! 4 bytes! G N U /! He doesn't want to molest your daughter, rape your wife, or take away your rights, he just wants recognition for a freaking foundation that just happens to have these high fucking ideals, ideals which you hold dearly! WTF?

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  2. Give it up, Stallman by msuzio · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    He just needs to give it up (but he never will). No one but him likes the assinine name, and it isn't neccessary to mangle a perfectly good name just to suit an agenda.

    Maybe that's what bugs me... it seems so arbitrary to push this position. It just never seemed like anything worthy of his time, and it makes him look even more like a raving loonie than he really is (but hey, it takes raving loonies to change the world sometimes).

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  3. Re:You cannot deny GCC is the heart of free softwa by scrytch · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Yunno ... I don't see Ken Thompson going around and demanding fealty from everyone for having written Unix. Welcome to the world of technology -- scratch that, welcome to the real world, where people have natural tendencies to push away people who demand gratitude. My mother doesn't claim credit for all my accomplishments, and she did a whole lot more than just provide half the chromosones...

    GCC was not the first freely available compiler, nor is it the only one out there. Compiler hackers could have just as easily worked on lcc and shut RMS up for good.

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