Mark Mitchell wrote: > Anyhow, in practical terms, debating this here probably will have zero > impact on the outcome. The ball is in RMS' court, and SC members > (including myself) have made many of the arguments that have been made > in this thread. If people want to influence the FSF, the best approach > is probably going to be sending mail directly to RMS, not discussing it > on this list.
I think your opinion probably carries a bit more weight with RMS than mine. :-) I don't want to prolong a pointless discussion either, but I hope somebody has made the "forest through the trees" argument. Proprietary extensions using a standard plug-in interface will eventually get replaced by free ones if they're of value. In the long term, this type of direct assault on GPL would backfire in a big way. -Jerry
