Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me

Posted by samzenpus on from the war-or-words dept.

spacenet writes "As a response to RMS speaking out against Ubuntu about its privacy-violating integrated Amazon search results, which he considers to be spyware, Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has addressed RMS's statements. In his reply, Jono claims that Stallman's views on privacy do not align with Canonical's, that some of his statements are worded in order to 'generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Ubuntu' and that 'it just seems a bit childish to me.' The comments on the post itself are well worth a read."

2 of 529 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yeah.. and? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "His big mouth is a counterweight"

    I think more likely he has a foot in his mouth.

  2. Stop Encouraging Him by FyberOptic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Richard Stallman has been childish since the day Symbolics told him he couldn't have their source code anymore, to which he set out on an infantile mission of revenge by cloning their software to a tee to give away for free (which today would put him in a lot of trouble), not to mention threatened to blow up their building (which would get you into a whole different kind of trouble in post-911 America). These days, he simply revises the GPL whenever a company (like Tivo) sends him into one of his rages.

    Can the tech media please stop posting RMS stories? Like with any other child acting out, you're only encouraging him.