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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. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm am first! Finally!

  2. Frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    p0st! Awww.... :(

  3. First Rabid Marxist Free Software Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All software should be Free as in gay sex from a glory hole in the Berkley library bathroom!

    1. Re:First Rabid Marxist Free Software Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Berkeley California or Berkeley college at Yale? I mean, I'm sure both have glory holes, but which one are you talking about? You've totally got to be more specific.

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

    ...the more I like him. :)

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  5. Trollbait of the year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Jesus Christ!

    This article must be THE TROLLBAIT OF THE YEAR.

    I bet that there will be 1000+ posts of trolling and open sores zealotry.

  6. Strange.. by Virtual+Karma · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    An Open Source project is being killed because the highest authority in Open Source OS namely Mr. Linus, decided not to use it and now the rest of the community is cheering it. Way to go guys.

    Now the corporates will sit back and think "should we use Open Source projects which might end up in a ditch or simply shell out a few bucks and go for Windows? No politics, No court cases, No hassles."

    Note: Not a troll just a point to ponder over..

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    fuvoo: watch something
  7. Question about free software: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    If I buy Mac mini this friday, will I get Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for free?

  8. Bill Frist Weighs IN ON: +1, Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    or, more correctly,

    Bill Frist's fatwa on Justice Sunday: Protest The Filibuster Against Those of Faith for his sugar daddy.

    Patriotically as always,
    Kilgore Trout, CEO

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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!