Stallman Unimpressed by Nokia Patent Pledge

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a commentary by Richard Stallman on the recent PR blitz by Nokia concerning their promise not to enforce patent claims against the Linux kernel project. Stallman's take? "In effect, Nokia is lobbying the European Union to give Nokia and many others a new kind of weapon to shoot at software authors and users with--and telling the legislators, 'Don't worry, it's safe to let private armies carry these guns, because we promise that our gunmen won't shoot anyone in that building.'""

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Is it just me?

[jevring]

or is RMS just some old fucking nut who's been getting way too much publicity?
I mean I appreciate everything he did with gnu in the past, but lately, he's been out there in conspiracy theory land with the rest of the nuts.
I just hope that peopel get there opinions from other sources too, rather just the rants of this one possible deranged man.
It seems that whenever he opens his mouth, it's to berate something, or belittle somebodys efforts.