FSF, Political Activism or Crossing the Line?

orbitor writes to tell us InfoWorld's Neil McAllister is calling into question some of the recent decisions by the Free Software Foundation. From the article: "All the more reason to be disappointed by the FSF's recent, regrettable spiral into misplaced neo-political activism, far removed from its own stated first principles. In particular, the FSF's moralistic opposition to DRM (digital rights management) technologies, which first manifested itself in early drafts of Version 3 of the GPL (Gnu General Public License), seems now to have been elevated to the point of evangelical dogma."

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FOSS vs. FOSS license lawsuits

[Mathinker]

"or write it yourself" ... and if you do so you can even license it under the GPL v.2!

I wonder when the first wiseacre does that without "clean rooming" and the FSF sues him for publishing software under the GPL v.2 which was licensed solely under the GPL v.3 ....

What this guy seems to be missing...

[localman]

Yes, it will sort itself out. You know why? Because people, including those like Mr. Stallman, will make a stink and raise awareness.

I mean, you can say that about anything in history: it will sort itself out. But that's no reason to avoid action. The "sorting itself out" is a result of peoples' action. A more accurate statement would be "everything that is a problem brings about resistance, and if large enough the resistance overcomes the problem". But that doesn't make much of an impact because it's so obvious and it implies action and responsibility on the part of the writer and listener. So we'll always here someone like this guy who is essentially saying "let someone else make the free market the work".

Cheers.

Definitions of marriage :-)

[hummassa]

What happened when you got married that changed this?
I had no other partners, period. Call me old-fashioned.