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And the person driving the wedge is Richard Stallman. I dont think he has ever forgiven Linus Torvalds for "hijacking" open source and resents the fact that the whole world does not worship him as their software saviour. For many years he had all the limelight and asside from GNU there wasn't much to show for it. Then Torvalds did Linux and everyone started to pay real (business) attention.

Stallman would love nothing better than for Linus to appear in a bad light, so he can gather back all his worshippers and become the messiah again. Trouble is, people respect Linus as a REAL engineer who does just yap but makes things work, so it is Stallman who is seen as the unaceptable face of open source.

Stallman and FSF are now just a millstone on the necks of the OSS movement. They "consult" with all their own cronies to make GPL3. What a surprise when the real world sys "Huh?"
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Obviously with this many people against the GPL3, Richard Stallman has some  DonnieBoy | 09/25/06
Why fix what is not broken?  balsover | 09/26/06
Do you still think think Linus is acting like a cry-baby?  eb276 | 09/26/06
"top developers ?"  Linux Geek | 09/25/06
Don;t worry, "top developers" has nothing to so with yoiu.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/06
Er, these are the top LINUX KERNEL developers  A.Sinic | 09/25/06
Come on now  zmud | 09/26/06
Errors or FUD  LarsD | 09/25/06
Clarification? Stallman wants to limit choice.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/25/06
dude, its called freedom of speech...  galileon | 09/25/06
Freedom becomes relative  DevGuy_z | 09/26/06
All dictators use this approach.  osreinstall | 09/26/06
Visit some BSD sites  Suicida| | 09/26/06
Seems apparent to me by now...  Omch'Ar | 09/25/06
Won't die..  Linux User 147560 | 09/25/06
Fork not going to happen  toadlife | 09/26/06
I don't think he's talking about the kernel  Michael Kelly | 09/26/06
Yup  A.Sinic | 09/25/06
Yeah that makes sense...  Omch'Ar | 09/26/06
wishful thinking  galileon | 09/25/06
Fine, democratically amend or don't adopt it  Boot_Agnostic | 09/26/06
Top Linux programmers pan GPLv3  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
Rockhead, are ya livin' in sum kinda ENGLISH INTERPRETATION WARP?  OButterball | 09/26/06
Living in the real world  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
You're not GIVING away your code  NetArch. | 09/26/06
See, Rockhead? NetArch understands. I would add:  OButterball | 09/26/06
I don't see  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
Don't try to explain logic to rockhead...  jasonp@... | 09/26/06
jasonp are you getting mad  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
Actually Munich is going over the rule book.  osreinstall | 09/26/06
Ah, good point, osredo.  OButterball | 09/26/06
Varibles can be a pain.  osreinstall | 09/26/06
Sounds like giving it away to me  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
Go read up on Intellectual Property Law.  B.O.F.H. | 09/26/06
Re: Sounds like giving it away to me  mKind | 09/26/06
Let me put it in terms YOU can understand  NetArch. | 09/26/06
Only a welcher would make a claim like that.  osreinstall | 09/26/06
Beacause it's not your code  voska | 09/26/06
What's the difference?  balsover | 09/26/06
Bottom line  Linux User 147560 | 09/26/06
As usual....  linux for me | 09/26/06
The only thing laughable  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
One more thing about the BSD model  NetArch. | 09/26/06
BSD Model  Loverock Davidson | 09/26/06
You should read the links again.  B.O.F.H. | 09/26/06
Before you attack BSD  Suicida| | 09/26/06
Rep and I love it...  Mike Cox | 09/26/06
Fundamental problem for Linux  ITTech001 | 09/26/06
No problem at all.  linux for me | 09/26/06
Don't confuse the two  NetArch. | 09/26/06
zealots  Clewin | 09/26/06
GPL is the only way to survive in coming war, but money talk$ too loud (NT)  Vily Clay | 09/26/06
OSS is moving slow due to lack of well-ORGANIZED Worldwide Power for OSS.  Vily Clay | 09/27/06
I thought it was a lack of demand.  osreinstall | 09/27/06
Message has been deleted.  Vily Clay | 09/27/06
Vily, there are no boogyman.  osreinstall | 09/28/06
Wake up, osreinstall, otherwise you'll miss the entire reality.  Vily Clay | 09/28/06
If you write a license and nobody uses it, does it really help?  JonathonDoe | 09/26/06
FSF Response - read it here ...  George Mitchell | 09/26/06

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