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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."

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  1. Nothing wrong with him by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing wrong at all with this man

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    1. Re:Nothing wrong with him by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Troll

      I have never seen until about a week ago.

      I am surprised it was never linked here. Or maybe I never saw it?

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  2. 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.

  3. This from "Jono" by devloop · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, and "Jonathan Edward James Bacon" calling himself "Jono" is oh-so-totally mature and not childish at all.

  4. Re:Exactly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is RMS wrong? It doesn't sound like it. I don't care if he's childish.

    Yes. I strongly believe he is wrong on every substantial issue he raises. I think his use of copyright law to force sharing (the GPL) is a clever legal hack, but his desire to prioritize the "freedom" of systems over those systems actually doing anything useful is totally unreasonable. Talking about "freedom" from proprietary software strikes me as ridiculous over-the-top rhetoric. Software freedom is so much less importsant than other forms of freedom (freedom from slavery, freedom of speech, freedom of association, etc) in the real world that I can't take his writing seriously.

    I took the time to read his views and come to that conclusion. Given his childish behavior, rant-laden writing style, and inability to express a coherent argument, I am sure the vast majority of software developers have never bothered to learn what his actual positions are. The only people who can stand to listen to him are those who forgive those traits because they already agree with what he says. You can't expect to grow a movement that way, even if your movement has a purpose that makes sense.

  5. 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.