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RMS says Creative Commons Unacceptable
Mr A Coward writes "Richard Stallman has stated in an interview that he no longer supports Creative Commons licenses. In the interview carried on LinuxP2P.com, and which is largely about the P2P and DRM issues, Stallman ends by saying: 'I no longer endorse Creative Commons. I cannot endorse Creative Commons as a whole, because some of its licenses are unacceptable.' He suggests instead using the GPL for creative works." The crux of his argument is that, since he disagrees with some of the CC licenses, and people tend to lump them all together, he feels compelled to reject them all. What's your take? Are some Creative Commons licenses worth using, even if others aren't?
Just one more sign Stallman is a big fat idiot.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Stallman only sees things one of two ways: his way, or no way. No thanks, Dick.
Maybe he is not relevant to you but I use his software every work day of my life and he has made doing the kind of software I do much easier. I develop very complex scientific software tools (google chombo). The gnu software development environment rocks for me. Maybe it does not work for you but for some of us, without FSF, our work lives would be much more difficult.
Furthermore, I admire a man that stands by his principles. Life is struggle. Choose your battles and fight them. I have very little respect people who think that someone who actually stands up for what he believes is some kind of obstacle to "the movement". Without Stallman and people like him, there would not be much of a movement to obstruct.
As to his ego, if he is proud of his accomplishments, he has every right to be.
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.------R. N. Marley
That's what I'm saying. He didn't write any of those. With the possible exception of portions of the earliest versions of emacs.
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