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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.'""
When did RMS become such a cynic?
You misspelt your name Godwin.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
A Nokia executive has publicly stated, "Our failure to impress Richard M. Stallman is a failure to the entire open source community. We are greatly ashamed that we could not meet the golden standards of such a modern visionary as Mr. Stallman, a man who has contributed much to society in the form of... We're not sure, but we're very ashamed that Mr. Stallman 'is not impressed.' As a result, Nokia will never again attempt to collaborate with the open source community. We are just not the type of corporation that can handle rejection."
The executive later killed himself.
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1) Try to make software patents valid everywhere
2) File some patents
3) Allow open source software to use your patents
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
Patents don't kill innovation, people with patents kill innovation.
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I, for one, am thankful he didn't use a Star Wars analogy of treachery and love.
;-)
I'm sure he hasn't seen Star Wars. A ticket would only give money to the capitalist fascists who want to kill us. I'm sure he's holding out until Star Wars is released to the public domain. Err, I mean until ownership of Star Wars is transfered to the FSF and the movies are rereleased under the GEL, Gnu Entertainment License.
He forgot to mention the children...
Without software patents innocent children will die of hunger, PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
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Hmm, so the number of trolls is inversely proportional to the distance into the "right"? Microsoft must be so far into the "right" they looped back around.
Nokia wants to invade Poland?
Both the Linux kernel and the GNU tools are essential for an operating system.
I see and have used lots of Operating Systems that dont rely on either the Linux kernel or the GNU tools. Neither are essential for an operating system, but both are often seen in operating systems, quite frequently together in the GNU/Linux OS. Please dont make it sound like an OS cant exist without the Linux kernel or the GNU tools.
I *do* stand up for what I believe in. It is also perfectly within my scope to say that I think the man went off the deep edge a looooong time ago and needs to get the hell out of the spotlight.
The linux kernel and gnu tools are essential for *that* OS *as it stands now*, not for all operating systems. Logically your statment is valid, but not in the spirit in which you likely made it.
He has worked on some decent projects, yes. This does NOT, however, mean that he can stand up and basically spout off that the world needs to be "free" and expect to be taken seriously by anyone who is actually in buisness.
"knowledge wants to be free". People want to eat.
Personally, I think the protocols and languages (which are only concepts) should be open and what is made with them should be up to the developers as to whether it is released under some OSS license or as closed source.
The crap he spews about everything should be "free" no matter what the people making it think is just that - crap and people are beginning to realize it.
How's that for standing up for what I believe?
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Why the younger generation open source enthusiasts continue to badger Mr. Stallman is beyond me. Shame on you.
The younger generation? Hah! I'm old enough to have worked on hack and awk, and I find Stallman's "GNU/Linux" thing totally ridiculous. It's not just the younger generation that badger him, but OSS enthusiasts of all ages, ever since he started this ridiculous GNU/Linux campaign. I lost a lot of respect for him when he started that, and I, and others, will continue to badger him as long as he badgers us with his GNU thing. Shame on RMS and shame on you for continuing with this stupid bickering. "Linux" may not be the exact correct name for that OS, but it's the common name used by everybody and it's not going to change anymore than the (mis)use of "hackers" is going to change. It's just a fucking name. Give it up already and gain back some of our respect!
Both the Linux kernel and the GNU tools are essential for an operating system.
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Just as for a *modern* operating system, X, KDE, and Mozilla are all essential.
How come he doesn't call it "Mozilla/[KDE|XFCE|OTHERWM]/[X.org|XFree86]/GNU/L
? Oh yeah, *BECAUSE IT'S TOO DAMN LONG*
Just like I believe "GNU/Linux" is too damn long.
I'm just sick of his hypocrisy.
At the same time, just because somebody is espousing their beliefs it doesn't mean they can't be crackpot beliefs that are ripe for mocking.
Freedom of speech. He can say what he wants, and I can say what I want about what he said.