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RMS Condemns "UnitedLinux" per-seat License
dep writes "Likening the practice to Windows, Richard M. Stallman has issued a brief statement condemning the per-seat licensing that it appears will be employed in the "UnitedLinux" core distribution. He calls upon developers to refuse to allow their work to be used by such a distribution."
Why moderate this down as a troll? He wasn't trolling; but offering an observation that doesn't hit too far from the mark.
"To each his needs. From each his abilities." isn't too far from the philosophy of open source. The difference is that RMS has no real power, as opposed to Lenin, who obviously did.
RMS can't send your family to the gulag for offending him, no matter how much he might wish he could.
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
How dare you judge him for judging RMS! What gives you the right to judge other people's ability to judge the public activities of RMS? This is an incredibly childish argument commonly heard on daytime trash talk TV shows. I am now waiting for the classic, "I know you are but what am I?", comeback.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Reading the article impedes Karma.
In other news, "Likening the practice to distributing peace, Slashdot user idonotexist has issued a brief statement supporting the deployment of the "UnitedLinux" core distribution. He calls upon developers to allow their work to be used by such a distribution."
In other words, wtf cares what his opinion is?
"There ought to be limits to freedom"
Precisely. Some RMS's long diatribes about "free speech and not free beer" being the intention of the GPL are actually bullshit. He has actively prevented (through the GPL) there being the possibility of free speech without free beer.
i-name =twylite [http://public.xdi.org/=twylite], see idcommons.net
The concept of "intellectual property" is nothing more than the idea that a person who creates should have some degree of control over what happens to that which they have created.
This is, quite interestingly, something that you must agree with in order to support the GPL. If a person doesn't have this right, then they have no right to place restrictions on their code which is exactly what the GPL does.
Please put down your mouse and move to a country where respect for the law is not a core value.
No one here will miss you.