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You seem to be new to this argument. Are you aware that we have had a bifurcated Open Source / Free Software movement since the 1990s? And how that came to be?
by neilk 6y ago
You seem to be new to this argument. Are you aware that we have had a bifurcated Open Source / Free Software movement since the 1990s? And how that came to be?
There were real philosophical disagreements, and I'm not even saying RMS had the wrong side of the argument. But he definitely gave everyone a huge incentive to go off and do something different because at least you wouldn't be working with RMS.
I can think of several people off the top of my head who attempted to work with RMS, were immediately repelled, and then went off to do other things with freely distributed software.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoWhy would anyone working on Free Software would need to work with rms personally? It is not like it's some weird cult where you need to be initiated into it by the high priest. We have created our software and released it under GNU GPL / AGPL licences without ever meeting anyone. As for 'bifurcation': it happened because different people have different goals when they release their software. Some are driven by some idealistic values, others do it because it fits in their business plan for whatever reasons. Thus different groups of people might have different requirements to freedoms they grant to their code.