Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange@nsk.yi.org writes:
Perhaps, but the reasons for his bad days are the SC, RMS, etc. And he has a few valid points. I didn't see the rest of the discussion, so I can't really comment on anything.
You seem to have seen more than many of us. Do you have URLs?
On 21 Aug 2001 09:16:32 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange@nsk.yi.org writes:
Perhaps, but the reasons for his bad days are the SC, RMS, etc. And he has a few valid points. I didn't see the rest of the discussion, so I can't really comment on anything.
You seem to have seen more than many of us. Do you have URLs?
You should start by reading all the rant:
http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-16-002-06-LT
AFAICS this isn't new. The "problem" is that RMS is paranoid with legal issues (Who owns the code, what's the best license, etc). As with most paranoid people, his work is only recognized when things go bad, which, fortunately, hasn't happened yet. In the meantime you have people working that 1) don't understand the need for all this paranoia and 2) feel the kind of interference caused by the paranoia to be robbing them from their work.
Drepper, as he says, isn't worried with the political and legal side of free software. This means that for him, and a lot of other developers, the political and legal sides of this issue are nothing more than people screwing those who make things work, the coders.
This means we need some real advocacy to FS and OS coders, not just outsiders.
On 21 Aug 2001 10:03:08 +0100, João Miguel Neves said:
AFAICS this isn't new. The "problem" is that RMS is paranoid with legal issues (Who owns the code, what's the best license, etc). As with most paranoid people, his work is only recognized when things go bad, which, fortunately, hasn't happened yet. In the meantime you have people
Those who attended the talk by Eben Moglen at the LSM 2001 got some insight in that problem and probably won't anymore say this is paranoid.