RMS strikes again!

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Part of it is his insistance - after all these years - that Linus took his 
(RMS's) work and used it to create Linux (or some of it) so it should be 
GNU/Linux instead of LInux.  He's carrying that on with other products 
evidently - wanting them to have GNU in the name.  Add to that the attitude 
that if it ain't opensource it's tainted - as in video drivers supplied by 
such as ATI and Nvidia.  They choose to not release all their secrets but 
do provide good working driviers - they just wrap their secrets in a binary 
part of the release.

In short it appears RMS has started to get a case of meglomania - name 
everything after GNU.  Now I agree and appreciate that the GNU people have 
made a lot of software available but if they wanted everything named 
GNU-whatever they should have put that in the license.  And wanting Linux 
named GNU-Linux just because some of their tools were used to create it is 
laughable.  Linus and others did the work!  The downside of all this is 
that the opensource/free software movement is losing credibility at a time 
when it's most needed.

Joel Hammer wrote:

> Could someone point me to some information about RMS and why he has become
> (or is) a lightning rod?
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:42:00AM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>> No more GNU-ghostscript releases thanks to RMS.
>> 
>> http://ghostscript.com/article/41.html
>> 
>> --

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