Peter Yared, chief executive of ActiveGrid... (According to Dan, "Yared says he and others in the open source community wasted two years trying to counter all the SCO-related FUD with customers. Just as that cloud is being lifted, along comes Stallman and the GPLv3 to mess everything up again.")
quoted by Money, requoted by Dan Lyons: http://floatingpoint.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/an-open-source-ceo-on-the-gplv3/ ------ SCO and Stallman are the two worst things that have happened to Linux. This is complete bullshit. The guy has his own agenda. Stallman is going to keep doing what hes been doing, but on this one hes going to go off a cliff. No one wants to put up with it. [...] The true definition of free software, for all of us who were hobbyists back in the 80s, was that we all did software under a public domain license. You can do whatever you want with it. Its not like open source was this new thing invented by Stallman. His idea was to force people to contribute stuff back. When you start putting your claws into people its not free anymore. [...] Stallman and these other guys, its like Bush-ism, where Republicans come out with some dumbed-down messages. Hes calling it free software, but its not. Its got a bunch of strings attached. People think the GPL is restrictive enough already. Now they want to add more restrictions. People have humored him but now hes pushing it too far. GPLv3 will go the way of all the other garbage licenses. ------ Yared elaborates: ------ Another great article, Dan! Yikes I forgot I went off like that. But you forgot the funny one we have all been laughing about at ActiveGrid, Stallmans free software is like free checking, there are a bunch of conditions on it! ------ regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss