Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:05:10 -0500 |
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:52:50 EST, Richard Stallman said: > If there was an ATT/Linux and an Intel/Linux, > having a GNU/Linux would make some sense... but that is not the way it > is. GNU/Linux is singular, so Linux makes a reasonable contraction. > > It would be reasonable, if not for the fact that it gives the wrong > idea of who developed the system and--above all--why.
OK. Enough is enough.
I have no problems with Richard Stallman espousing a particular viewpoint of how he and/or GNU and/or the FSF feel things should be. I don't even mind *too* much when he proselytizes said view, even when it interferes with what *my* goals are. I even see why the FSF requires copyright assignments for code.
However, since I haven't seen any FSF paperwork for assigning *motivations* and *thoughts* to the FSF, I don't think there is *ANY* basis in saying that there was a single unified "WHY" a large group of people working independently developed something.
"All your code are belong to us" is bad enough. "All your thoughts are belong to us" is totally over the edge. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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