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The FSF doesn't seem to understand much about how to win. Winning means that everyone uses your software and you can apply massive influence, in this case to p
by justin_vanw 11y ago
The FSF doesn't seem to understand much about how to win. Winning means that everyone uses your software and you can apply massive influence, in this case to push for freedom.
Winning isn't being a damn curmudgion that everyone hates because you constantly correct how they refer to your product.
What is the proper way to refer to the Apple computer system? Is it Mac? OS/X? OSX? OSX/Mach FreeBSD +Commercial UI layer based on NeXT? Literally NOBODY cares. Why doesn't Apple come out every week with a press release explaining the proper grammar for referring to their stuff?
Because that would be ludicrous and stupid and counter productive.
Learn something from that FSF!
- trentnelson 11y agoThe fights are most vicious when there's so little at stake.
- rekado 11y agoThe GNU project is primarily a social project with technical components. If the project's philosophy is not mentioned because the project isn't even understood to exist this is a problem. GNU is not primarily a product; if it were you would be right that its name wouldn't matter much and world domination would be the primary target.