RMS strikes again!

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I'm afraid you're right - hence my comment on "tainted" software.  Where 
once Open/Free source was a voice of reason the din of fanatics is 
overriding that voice and if it gets bad Open/Free can lose any credibility 
we have.

Shawn L Johnston wrote:

> 
> 
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I think even more too the point, he seems fanatical on definitions of
> "free software" vs. "open source software", and if you don't agree with
> (or even better you don't care about) his definitions well then...
> 
> 
> Shawn

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