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Why is RMS attacking Android?
- tjr 15y agoThe writing in this article strikes me as a lot more "repugnant" than Richard's.
- mansr 15y agoOf course RMS is upset about Android. Linux came to be, or at least became popular, largely as a result of the GNU project's complete failure to produce a kernel. This in itself has been an annoyance to RMS, thus the constant GNU/Linux rants. Now Google has combined the successful Linux kernel with an entirely non-GNU userspace to create a wildly successful system. However, despite having no GNU components itself, Android could not have existed without GNU initially fuelling the popularity of Linux. To RMS, this obviously stings, and being RMS, he must point fingers and cry "non-free" rather than take it like a man.