Posts tagged rms
GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight
Mar 8th
I don’t know about “free software”. Even after more than a decade it’s still an alien term for me. I know it is “opensource” for as far as I’m concerned. And that’s all I care about. - Philip Van Hoof, GNOME Foundation Member
Usually I turn to HBO or Showtime to provide me with my drama fix, but the GNOME Foundation Mailing List is doing a pretty durn good job of spicing it up these last few weeks. It’s so good I might have to break it up over a few entries.
New Thing: Same as the Old Thing
This latest kerfluffle (not More >
Starred Items
Jan 25th
Here’s a few shorter stories I found interesting – “Starred Items” in my RSS reader – that others might find of interest!
The Good: Gnote has a new support team in place with exciting plans.
The Bad: Said support team has to bend over backward to make it clear they are not “anti-Mono”. After effects of the smear campaign against the original author of Gnote?
The Beez on how he deals with comments to his opinion pieces. I am of much the same mind. With the exceptions of spam, profane or insane posts, I don’t restrict comments.
You’d be More >
On Selling Exceptions
Jan 14th
In the continuing and complex drama surrounding MySQL and Oracle, RMS expressed concerns on the acquisition, and later expounded on his position in “On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL“.
The latter document is an informative read, and Bruce Byfield has an insightful take on the situation in his article “Selling GPL Exceptions isn’t Exceptional“.
What Lies Beneath
Although the actual specifics are fairly interesting in and of themselves, I’m more interested in an underlying theme, one that Mr. Byfield astutely hits upon here:
Both supporters and opponents of the FSF sometimes seem to have created a set of straw figures to react to. More >
InformationWeek on RMS
Jan 6th
Synchronicity on the intertubes today!
David Berlind has an article up today about his recent interview with RMS over at InformationWeek.com.
Behold this shocking reporting!:
After the interview’s conclusion, Stallman said I was particularly nasty in the way I started to ask my question to which I responded that I understood the issue well, that I have understood it for many years, and that I meant no disrespect. He admonished me to go back to the recording and listen to the way in which I phrased the question. He was right. Stallman chooses his words very carefully. I didn’t. If you compare his request in email More >
The Phoenix Interviews RMS
Dec 24th
The Phoenix has a quite good interview with RMS, including a surprisingly clear recognition of the on-going rift between “Open Source” and “Free Software”. (Bonus: a nice sidebar, “GNU and the Free Software Movement” as well)
Kudos to the author, Mike Miliard.
I like several things about this article. For one thing, the author obvious took great pains trying to break down a somewhat abstract and complex “inside baseball” issue and did not oversimplify it to the point of white-washing it.
For another, there are a lot of powerful RMS quotes:
What we need is enough people not to be outright cowards, and we can More >
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