-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 May 2002 6:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, but I have the authors mixed up; it's > not Eric Raymond (who was on my mind with krazy glue for some reason) > but rather the Father of free software, Richard Stallman. Sorry to > confuse; especially myself.... Mind you, the Stallman piece is interesting; his line is that, as Linux contains rather a lot of GNU material, it should be called GNU/Linux and not enough credit is given for the involvement. He also has a characteristic argument that binary-only drivers (here comes the Alcatel Speedtouch USB once again :) violate the GPL so should be reverse-engineered and rewritten under the GPL to maintain a 'pure' 'free' Linux and, by a rhetorical trick, manages to blame Linus Torvalds for this situation. The extremity of his arguments is most unusual and refreshing but, in the end, self-defeating because the arguments are not convincing; there are much more important things to do than writing device drivers twice. And anyone in a campaigning position has to destroy the self and not get into wrangles about names, precedence, purity of motive and so on; once you start doing that people switch off and you're finished :/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE86qKSCv59vFiSU4YRAiKKAJ4k2bVGZTNnB+5kwwr6wPVZYvQmWACfb/HZ dYnk/S0PJsNetEHcIbBKBPE= =fLku -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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