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Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted
j00bar writes "After Linus Torvalds' impassioned critiques of the second draft of GPLv3 and the community process the FSF has organized, Newsforge's Bruce Byfield discovered in conversations with the members of the GPLv3 committees that the committee members disagree; they believe not only has the FSF been responsive to the committees' feedback but also that the second draft includes some modifications in response to Torvalds' earlier criticisms." NewsForge and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
You know what's really funny? The vast majority of us on slashdot rightfully get up in arms when politicians play the terrorist card to take away our civil liberties. But we don't see it when one of our own does it to us. Instead we are ready to give up freedoms now because if we don't, then at some vague point in the future, DRM is going to lock us out of our computers.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
> The GNU project was trying to create a free version of Unix - the GNU system - and was going about it in a systematic fashion, one tool at the time.
One tool at a time is by no means systematic. Doing it in the right order would be systematic. Except that the GNU project had an Image Manipulation Program and a desktop environment before the kernel would support 2GB of hard disk space. To me that does not look very systematic.
> You think that Linux - a single operating system kernel - is going to have more lasting influence than the whole free software movement, of which the Linux kernel is just a part of ?
Fortunately, GNU and FSF are not the whole free software movement. There is BSD, there is KDE, there is Mozilla, there is OpenOffice, and there are also countless smaller projects. Freedome is also about choice, but choice is something that RMS seems to reserve to himself.