I wonder what if RMS did take control of glibc? Would it do harm to users, develoeprs or RHAT the company?
Maybe off topic but I've always wondered what kind of business model (and morality) it is to build for profit companies around software based some many people's 'free' work. I wonder how developers who contributed to these projects (say, glibc) and yet not big enough to become shareholder of these companies feel when they see stock the IPO craze of RHAT and LNUX?
If not for RMS's work RHAT wouldn't have been existed today.
As for the bashing, imho RMS has as much freedom to stab from back as Drepper tell him to shut up in the release note.
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I wonder what if RMS did take control of glibc? Would it do harm to users, develoeprs or RHAT the company?
Maybe off topic but I've always wondered what kind of business model (and morality) it is to build for profit companies around software based some many people's 'free' work. I wonder how developers who contributed to these projects (say, glibc) and yet not big enough to become shareholder of these companies feel when they see stock the IPO craze of RHAT and LNUX?
If not for RMS's work RHAT wouldn't have been existed today.
As for the bashing, imho RMS has as much freedom to stab from back as Drepper tell him to shut up in the release note.