"William H. Magill" spake on Thursday 04-Oct-2012@00:35:08 > Stallman has hated Steve Jobs as long as I can remember. It was Stallman who, > when asked about the death of Steve Jobs, said "I’m not glad he’s dead, but > I’m glad he’s gone". From Stallman's personal blog: > > “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to > sever fools from their freedom, has died. > > As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, > “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.” Nobody deserves to have to > die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than > theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs’ malign influence on people’s > computing. > > Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only > hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less > effective.”
Thanks for the reminder of what a world-class dickhead Stallman is, I'd forgotten about his crass and insulting comments about Jobs when he died. I certainly agree that the FreeSoftware model is in serious trouble, and I think that GPLv3 will end up being the poison pill for GPL. However, I think the other Open Source licenses are in relatively good shape at this point, and there are certainly benefits to having programs like Apache and SHA-2 (and SHA-3) be open source. -- For more than a thousand generations the Jedi were the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. Before the dark times. Before the Empire. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
