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GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project

Posted by Unknown on from the ulrich-drepper-wants-his-rant-back dept.

In a scathing rant posted to a GNU project mailing list, the maintainer of grep and sed announced that he was quitting the GNU project over technical and administrative disagreements. Chief among them: He believes RMS is detrimental to the project by slowing down technical innovation (the example used was RMS's distaste for C++, not exactly a strong point against RMS). Additionally, he noted that the FSF is not doing enough to help GNU "Projects such as gnash are bound to have constant funding problems despite being (and having been for years) in the FSF's list of high priority projects.". Finally: "Attaching the GNU label to one's program has absolutely no attractiveness anymore. People expect GNU to be as slow as an elephant, rather than as slick as a gazelle, and perhaps they are right. Projects such as LLVM achieve a great momentum by building on the slowness of GNU's decision processes, and companies such as Apple get praise even if they are only embracing these projects to avoid problems with GPLv3." The author is quick to note that he has no philosophical disagreements with GNU or the FSF.

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  1. No disagreements? by hduff · · Score: 0, Troll

    So he's just on his period?

    Oh wait, it's just a sensationalist headline.

    --
    "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
  2. Re:Holy slanted summary, Batman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    But this is Slashdot where one crazy neckbeard (RMS) is never flat out wrong no matter how wrong he is.

  3. Exciting stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    One neckbeard quits his job because he doesn't like some other neckbeards.

    News at 11.

  4. Re:slightly off topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet few argue about what Gandhi did for the world. It kills me to hear about people complaining about RMS's views on C++, on which he happens to be mostly right, and even if you disagree this is not naked girl territory.

    The really pathetic thing about what you are saying is that it is largely correct. To bad you have to demonize naked girls to make a point. What point you are trying to make I have no idea.

    Conservatives think that young naked girls are evil and should be avoided, much like many primitive religions shun girls during their menstrual cycles. Since RMS isn't known to be sexually attractive to anybody, I guess this point of yours is somehow relevant.