Richard, David, GNUsteppers,
I have only made a couple of small contributions to GNUstep so far, but I'd
like to follow up on this discussion. It has unfortunately, convinced me never
to contribute anything directly to the FSF again.
Richard's original comments did not phase me particularly, though I agree with
David, the use of Steve's death as a political bandwagon was very distasteful.
Richard's response to David's comments though put me off ever associating
myself with an organisation that seems to be built on the concept that if you
ever do anything that contradicts their aim, all your previous efforts to help
are null and void.
I no longer want to have anything to do with the FSF, where possible I will
make it my aim to not use any of their software, and while I will continue to
release my code under the BSD license, I will not contribute any of it directly
to the FSF.
Tom Davie
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On 8 Oct 2011, at 09:50, Richard Stallman wrote:
> So it is unfair of RMS to
> characterize Steve as the "one who made jail cool."
>
> That is fair because that is the most important effect he had on the
> world.
>
> Don't let one
> bad thing tarnish a myriad of great things.
>
> I don't think anyone here disagrees with that.
>
> If Jobs did several things, the rational way to judge these things is
> separately. Thus, the App Store does not make the NextSTEP design
> bad, and the NextSTEP design does not make the App Store good.
>
> If the question is to judge Jobs, that requires adding them all up. I
> conclude that his net effect was very negative, because the App Store
> and iTunes did tremendous harm. However, when judging Jobs' legacy
> isn't the question, we don't need to add them up. We can keep them
> separate.
>
> In particular, there is no reason why criticism of Jobs should have
> any affect on anyone's opinions about GNUstep. GNUstep is what it is,
> regardless of Jobs, Apple, or anyone else.
>
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