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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.'"
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It already got boring!
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.
that's just crazy RMS regurgitating more of that "it's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux" crap
It's just the standard FSF press release with "SCO" pencilled in. He barely even mentions SCO except to use it as the latest example of why everyone else in the world is a cretin for confusing GNU and Linux. The usual exhortations to adopt his version of newspeak are in there, as is the ritual flogging of poor dead GNU Hurd, and the reliable old prediction that GNU will shed Linux Real Soon Now anyway.
Notable exceptions are a lack of a lecture about the difference between Free and Open, and there are only five mentions (including the title) of GNU being a "community". C'mon Richard, get with the five year program.
Jesting aside, it does show some restraint on his part to just use the standard press release, rather than writing a piece along the lines of "I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same, I always--". Fair props to RMS, he's been warning about this for years. Who'd have thought that the filthy socialist hippy would be right?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Sure there would probably be major setbacks. It might take another five years to get to the point were we are now but things would eventually get back to normal.
So Dubya's statement that Iraq is no longer essential is true.
I used to live in Iraq and I love it. But if I _had_ to I could learn to live in Europe, or Asia even. I know both Europe and Asia are working on getting there [sic] economy up to snuff.
If Iraq went away tomorrow it would be a real shame (understatement of the year) but it would not be the end of Islam.
The world is a bit b i tter place because of RMS.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
>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.
Fuck you, you sick, diarrhea-slurping hippie.
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?