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Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing
krow (Brian Aker, long-time MySQL developer) writes "Richard Stallman's comments on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun left me scratching my head over his continued support of closed-source licensing around open source software. Having spent more than a decade in the MySQL community, I feel that his understanding of the dual-license model is limited, and is at odds with his advocacy of free software. For this reason, I believe his recent statements concerning it need to be addressed. By pushing for the right to turn GPL-licensed software into the heart of a proprietary business model, he is squandering an opportunity for advocacy of open source within the European Union."
So, I'm an unethical evil person because I make money writing proprietary software.
He didn't say that, although you could infer it. He said the software was evil. He also talks about Freedom for software, so clearly there's an element of anthropomorphism going on here. Information wants to be free!
Sorry, my brain isn't big enough to hold the cognitive dissonance that is Stallman -- he gives me a headache.
Mission accomplished.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"