Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 12:59:13 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Gerard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: Annoying GPL issues |
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On Fri, 28 May 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com> > Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:14:31 -0700 > > > Okay, maybe we can grant copyright of some part of core kernel code to > > FSF. Anyone who does have code in kernel core should be able to grant > > their copyright to FSF. [I'd volunteer, but my only bigger piece of > > code in kernel is nbd ;-)] > > Nooooooooo! > > Agreed. If you have the best interests of the Linux community at heart, > absolutely not. Keep in mind that Richard Stallman is an ideologue; an > activist. He has the interests of his particular political agenda as > his primary motivator, and I am sure he would perfectly happy to > sacrifice Linux in the name of furthering the goals of promoting his > ideas about free software if that ever became necessary.
The guy you qualify as ideolog has promoted things that _really_ exist and are used and useable nowadays. Could it be possible he just is a pragmatic ideolog ? ;-) So was probably Linus and perhaps you at the beginning of the Linux project. But time may have cleared part of your memory.
> My personal loyalties is not to the FSF but to the Linux community, and > most of the Linux community tend to be pragmatists. Open Source > Software is preferable, and we work to make better and greater amounts > of OSS, but if someone needs to purchase an Accelerated-X server in > order to get support for a video card using a Savage 3D chipset, that's > fine. We don't berate someone for having a moral failure because they > used (oh, horrors!) propietary software on their Linux system.
You are just mixing pragmatism and busyness here, in my opinion. You must be pragmatic, may-be, if you want to succeed with $$-busyness, but you also can be pragmatic in a more general way. For example, I donnot think than projects like Plan-9 that looks like sci-fi that will never happen has something to do with pragmatism.
> As such, the goals of the FSF are very different than the goals of the > Linux community, and the last thing we should want to do is give that > kind of power over to the FSF. Otherwise, some day we might see an > announcement in Slashdot...
You seem to speak as some representant of the whole Linux community. Did I miss some election you won or perhaps what you call 'Linux community' is very different from what I understand from.
> "We had to destroy the village in order to save it". And perhaps to kill everybody that are against what you want to save, if needed.
Gérard.
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