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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. And the Pipe is passed again... by haplo21112 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Same old RMS...
    Everytime I read something he has written I realize just how far in the sky his thought really are...Yes Free software is wonderful...I'm all for it if it has a solution to the problem I have...however is something commercial solves the problem better than, thats what I am going to use.

    --
    Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
  2. Morals/Values - Your most expensive posession by imgunby · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Whatever your personal views on commercial software happen to be, everything I've ever read from RMS suggests that he really, really believes in "free as in speech." That suggests that it's more than just some passing fad with him... that it might be a "mission"... a "core part of his being" which he is gracious enough to share with the rest of the world.

    Like him, or don't; support him or don't, but don't piss in his vision of the future until you've made a fraction of his contributions