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Ghostscript Leaves GNU

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-shame dept.

commanderfoxtrot writes "Ghostscript 7.07 has been released. However, this is the last GNU release. They will continue to make releases under the GNU GPL, but because of disagreements over censorship of the AFPL releases and the development model in the GNU release their development process has become incompatible with the goals of the GNU project as interpreted by Richard Stallman."

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  1. Re:Have to side with the GNU folks here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    However, that doesn't stop RMS from blabbing about the huge mass of "Free Software developers" and the amount of "Free Software" out there, only a tiny minority of which is developed by some GNU-devoted whackos who would identify themselves as such.