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One of those days (rant)

Posted 10-19-2014 at 08:50 PM by rocket357

Ever have one of those days where you want to grab people, shake them within an inch of their lives, and scream in their face "WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP!!"??

I'm having one of those days. I read a debate earlier where one side was arguing that RMS has saved us from proprietary control and all that jazz.

Really? It's 2014. 2004 wants its punchline back.

I challenge ANY of you to a simple task. I challenge you to fork a GPL project, modify it to suit your needs, and then release it under a proprietary license. Oh, I should mention that you'll probably want to get a lawyer first. Just sayin'.

I guess I just don't understand the hypocrisy of the GPL camp sometimes. Linux is a complete wasteland of proprietary control (run a modern Linux distro without systemd...oh, a bit of difficulty? Let's ask Red Hat and Canonical really nicely if they'll stop it with the shenanigans. We all got a good laugh out of systemd, now let's get back to reality, shall we? Oh, they gave us the finger? Well, how very unsportsmanlike of them).

Get a grip. RMS doesn't care about your freedom any more than Pol Pot cared about human rights.
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  1. Old Comment
    And who or what does care about your software rights/freedom? What would alleviate your primal scream? Cheers and beers!
    Posted 12-11-2014 at 07:01 PM by curtvaughan curtvaughan is offline
  2. Old Comment
    Read up on the ISC/BSD license. GPL followers tend to curse BSD/ISC for being "business-centric" (and there is perhaps some truth to the business side of that thinking), but seriously, read the license (template for OpenBSD, not the actual license):

    http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cv...plate?rev=HEAD

    Though I agree...cheers and beers go a long ways in settling disputes =D
    Posted 12-16-2014 at 11:49 AM by rocket357 rocket357 is offline
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    Stallman and the Free Software Foundation are vehemently against companies having copyrights and patents on software, but they are not against companies having control over the use of "free" software. For them, freedom is free of restrictive licences. Freedom does not include being free to use free software. Is it a ridiculously narrow view or hypocrisy?

    Gnome is a GNU project; Gnome's development was (and still is?) greatly influenced by Red Hat; Gnome and GNU have been cooperating with Red Hat by being pro-systemd from the beginning. So where does that put Stallman and the FSF?

    My vote is for hypocrisy. And it does not make me want to shout at people. It leaves me shaking my head in disbelief and telling Linux users they deserve whatever they get.
    Posted 12-19-2014 at 01:35 PM by Randicus Draco Albus Randicus Draco Albus is offline
 

  



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