Not sure why you don't trust the FSF. It has changed a lot since the beginnings and Mr. Stallman's views very clearly do not drive it.
I had a run-in with Mr. Stall in 1986. I had called because I couldn't believe that I was required to dump anything I wrote in gnu C under his license. We argued for a while after which he threatened to sue for copyright breach if I didn't comply. The law allowed him to collect double damages, which would have been the price of C/C++ at the time or zero bucks. The license is very different now and basically allows you to keep anything you write with it. It was that change in the GPL to which I believe he can attribute the success of FSF. You're right, he's not a very nice person, but the FSF is bound as much by the GPL as we are. Victhor Foster wrote: > I don't trust the FSF. I don't think Mr. Stallman is a nice person. > (I hear all the time he doesn't take baths :P) > > -- “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” – Ben Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
