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RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD
sckienle writes "ZD-Net has a commentary by Richard Stallman about the SCO case against IBM, kind of. It does provide some history on what the GNU organization did to protect itself from such lawsuits. Favorite quote: 'Less evident is the harm it does by inciting simplistic thinking: [Intellectual Property] lumps together diverse laws--copyright law, patent law, trademark law and others--which really have little in common.'"
I don't think there was much in that commentary that was actually relevant. Horn blowing about GNU/Linux - you know, RICHARD, most people building an OS START with the kernel, not the other way around. If Linus hadn't gotten something pulled together the FSF would still be wandering in the wilderness.
One good point
The Free Software Foundation's lawyer, Professor Moglen, believes that SCO gave permission for the community's use of the code that they distributed under the GNU GPL and other free software licenses in their version of GNU/Linux.
Who'd have thought that the filthy socialist hippy would be right?
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Um, that would a "filthy socialist GNU/hippy" to you, pal!
My journal has hot
>Did you even read the article?
I read every single word of the article, and it read very nearly like every single word of every single other article that he's ever written.
He sheds no specific insight on this case, he doesn't "cut through the FUD", he just evangelises his own position, in exactly the same way he always does, while admitting that he has no idea what SCO's position is, except that whatever it is, it's probably wrong. This is not an article about SCO, it's just YARMSAA (Yet Another RMS Autobiographical Article).
By the way, it's ad hominem, not "ad homonem". You humourless dingbat.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
No, the "GNU desktop environemnt" is GNUstep which really hasn't gotten anywhere.
gtk and gnome are both primarily Linux initiatives.
If you use something other than just the commandline than what you see is NOT GNU.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> there is no GNU/BSD
"Today, GNU runs with various kernels including Linux, the GNU Hurd (our kernel), and the NetBSD kernel. It is basically the same system, whichever kernel you use [...] today it also runs with two BSD kernels"
When you assert "there is no GNU/BSD", are you saying that RMS is a liar or a cretin?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
More details (in German): heise.de
I'm sick and tired of articles about interesting things happening in Germany being written in German. Every German I've ever met spoke perfect English, so why can't you guys just drop the parochial attitude and start publishing all your stuff in God's Own Tongue?
p.s. Is it true that the reason that Germans have no sense of humor is due to the fact that part of their ancestry includes Black Forest trolls?