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RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle

Posted by timothy on from the quite-a-backhand dept.

mshiltonj writes "You know its what we've all been waiting for: RMS weighs in on the BitKeeper debacle. An excerpt: "I want to thank Larry McVoy. He recently eliminated a major weakness of the free software community, by announcing the end of his campaign to entice free software projects to use and promote his non-free software. Soon, Linux development will no longer use this program, and no longer spread the message that non-free software is a good thing if it's convenient."

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  1. The more I hear about RMS... by eno2001 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...the more I like him. :)

    --
    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  2. A little story about convience and free software by filterchild · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've been working with Linux for about 2 years now. I've also been trying to master music production for about the same amount of time.
    My music software of choice was Beast/BSE, which is a modular softsynth/sequencer program. At first, I kept giving up. I just couldn't make the sounds that "everyone else" was using. After a while, I understood enough to make those sounds, but I had spend so much time making my own sounds that I didn't want to use "everyone's" sounds.

    The moral is: Free Software has a huge learning curve in some cases, and I was tempted to give up very often, but in the end, I believe that the Free Software gave me more power than a non-Free equivalent.

  3. Re:I disagree w/RMS... by Keamos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Also, look at the stupid bullshit RMS posts on his website...

    http://www.stallman.org/ex-boyfriends-list.html
    http://www.stallman.org/republicanBeliefs.html

  4. Re:he's being quite modest about it by thsths · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    > Soon, Linux development will no longer use this [pitiful] program

    That is about as soon is Hurd is ready? Or was it nearly ready? I always mix those Hirds up.

  5. Re:I disagree w/RMS... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't really have anything to say about the "Ex-boyfriends List" (It's way out of context, so didn't make much sense.), but if you think that the Republican Beliefs text is "stupid bullshit" then you are very blind/have your head far up your ass.

    How is any of those thing untrue about Republicans? They are horribly, scarily true.

  6. Re:he's being quite modest about it by Moofie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, it's almost like he's an American and is using the American spelling of the word. How peculiar...

    While we're on the subject, there's no such thing as "aluminium".

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    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!