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Credit and Free Software

Posted by michael on from the where-it's-due dept.

Hans Reiser - you're thinking ReiserFS, and you'd be right - has a proposal to slather Free Software with credits for its authors. Good? Bad? This is something the community has generally moved away from, but maybe Reiser has a good point. Newsforge is part of OSDN.

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  1. Re:Points not to be discounted lightly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To both the story submitter and the parent author:

    Look, it's really not a big deal, but if you're going to use an uncommon word, please do it correctly: You don't "slather" free software with credits; you slather credits all over free software.

  2. Requiring attribution is OK; GRABBING credit isn't by Brett+Glass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For example, Richard Stallman's attempts to claim Linux as his own ("It's GNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Linux! It's mine, all mine, I say!) are obnoxious and betray his lust for power and control.