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It doesn't seem that they "won"; at least not yet. In my case, the bullying of RMS moved me to join the FSF, to stop all use of non-free software in my life, a
by enriquto 4y ago
It doesn't seem that they "won"; at least not yet. In my case, the bullying of RMS moved me to join the FSF, to stop all use of non-free software in my life, and to become an even more vocal activist for free software.
Looking around, within the scientific community, free software is today stronger than ever, and going even stronger. All the basic tools used by scientists today are 100% free software: R, gfortran, octave, python, torch, numpy, lapack, fftw3, gmp, overleaf, jupyter, git... The only remaining non-free software pieces of infrastructure are github and some proprietary chat rooms that will go unnamed.
- pjmlp 4y agoNow count how much of that is GPL.
- enriquto 4y agowhy, I was just citing some common free software. Anyhow, about half of my random list seems to be copyleft: GPL : R, gfortran, octave, fftw3, git LGPL : gmp (dual-licensed with gpl2) AGPL : overleaf BSD-like: python, numpy, torch, jupyter, lapack What is your point?
- pjmlp 4y agoBasically what OP's was referring to, > Big corporate ran a campaign to dirty the name of GPL, Richard Stallman and the FSF. They won.
- fnord123 4y agoAll of those projects pre-date the campaign against RMS afaict so their licenses were a settled matter already.
- pjmlp 4y agoFirst part of OP's sentence is "Big corporate ran a campaign to dirty the name of GPL...."