Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:45:06 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199812222236.OAA16190@ann.qtpi.lakewood.ca.us>, Bob Taylor writes: +----- | ego trip on his part. While I have appreciated the *results* of the FSF | efforts, I utterly *reject* their "ideology". I really do wish Stallman | would shut up about an ideology the people of the world have rejected and | has been proven to be a total failure. +--->8
Rot. I've had arguments with RMS about ideology in the past, but more about methods than about goals. The ideology is far from a failure --- and Linux itself is proof thereof. (Which is undoubtedly why RMS wants to make sure the world knows it. Evidently you're one of those who needs the reminder.)
"Rome wasn't built in a day", and the current "order" of the software industry can't be ripped apart and reassembled in a different fashion overnight. It takes time and it takes the active cooperation of those involved (and this is why Eric Raymond is just as important --- he has the ability to make Free Software a goal they can accept, instead of a challenge to their very existence. This is a matter of communication, not of differences in goals) if it's to be done relatively painlessly.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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