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I aspire to make enough important and influential decisions some day to earn the sort of hatred RMS has.
by Afforess 11y ago
I aspire to make enough important and influential decisions some day to earn the sort of hatred RMS has.
- Mikeb85 11y agoNo kidding. Despite the hate, look where open-source was pre-RMS, and where it is now. Look how important GNU tools are, GCC, Linux, and so on...
- sinxoveretothex 11y agoHow would we judge that? Per Wikipedia, Stallman wrote the GPLv1 in 1989. I wasn't even born then. Moreover, I doubt this is a good argument. Would the Mill (youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI) be possible using Free Software (consider the GCC exceptions were pushed way too late, circa 2009 per gnu.org https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.html)? Would Linux even exist without at least BSD having been released? I'm more of a copyleft than a 'BSD libertarian', but I don't think we can look at RMS's contribution by comparing what was before and what is now if for no other reason because it's impossible to separate what is due to copyleft, what is due to BSD-style and what is due to a mixture of both.