On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:45:25 -0500 Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:52:00PM +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: [...] > > Let's face it: Debian wouldn't exist without the FSF. > > Maybe not. Neither would a lot of other things. That's a strawman > that doesn't change where things are today. The FSF deserves respect > for their part in getting us here, but not so much that they're exempt > from critical review.
Exactly.
The FSF has the great merit of having built the free software community.
RMS was the first to formalize the "free software" concept.
The GNU is a very important part of today's free software code base.
But nowadays, the FSF leadership seems to play the "let's restrict it a
bit more" game, driving the community farther and farther away from the
original "free software" concept... :-(
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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