On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:57:31PM -0800, Chris LeBlanc wrote: > > >IMO Richard Stallman is dangerous. > > > I would say just the opposite. The ones that I think are dangerous is > folks like ESR, who don't mind watering down the freedoms they expect, > just to get a "win" by wooing some big company. > > Me, I don't expect Oracle or any other big name to jump up and make > their stuff GPL. I do like the idea that the GPL software I use today > will not get pulled, closed down, or restricted from me some time in the > future because it became popular. If someone decides to pull the plug > on development of a GPL program, or tries to tie it in with TPM to both > give it to you, and lock it away, someone else can pick up where they > had left off and keep developing.
you don't need the GPL for this. look at the history of OpenSSH. > > He does easily as much harm as good to > >the community that supposedly doesn't exist. We're talking about the guy > >that pretty much singlehandedly made the KDE license war last an extra two > >years because he insisted on GPL or nothing. At the time, I asked the > >people at Troll Tech what was wrong with the GPL. Their response was > >three letters: RMS. There's such a thing as going to far, and he'd gone > >it. I saw the email and what Richard was doing. It was designed to piss > >them off and coerce them into the GPL. The more he pushed, the more they > >pushed back. Only after he stopped pushing and let tempers settle for a > >couple of years was it possible to speak reasonably about the topic. > > > > > Sorry, I wouldn't touch KDE until the whole QT license was taken care > of. IMO, QT was stalling because they were wrong, but didn't want to > admit it. RMS didn't back down because it was a good example of how > wrong some can be. > > >He's not going to listen to me, though. By my own choice, I'm now pretty > >much an unknown in the community unless someone remembers me from my > >fortune file. This kind of thing is why I left the community proper. > > > > > The sad truth is that the community needs extremists, not because their > way will end up being the norm, but because without someone pushing in > that direction, we never end up in the middle. couldn't agree more (well, I don't think it is a "sad" truth, just "the" truth). -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
