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Yes. Even though RMS is the founder of the movement, I think it is fair to say most people who contribute to GPL code have a more pragmatic view. Linus Tovalds
by LastTrain 4y ago
Yes. Even though RMS is the founder of the movement, I think it is fair to say most people who contribute to GPL code have a more pragmatic view. Linus Tovalds springs to mind and is the 'owner' of the particular OS the article's author was writing about. I would argue the author has a similarly silly attitude which is the GPL is so bad he won't even taint his machine with it.
- nix23 4y ago>Linus Tovalds springs to mind and is the 'owner' of the particular OS the article's author was writing about. Linux is just a Kernel, and Linus is the copyright-owner (of Linux (the brand)), not the 'owner' of code mostly others made. >I would argue the author has a similarly silly attitude which is the GPL is so bad he won't even taint his machine with it. Please read the article again, it's not against GPL but against those extreme RMS-mind's in the FSF community.
- phendrenad2 4y agoI think it's valid to not want to use software if you think that using it will contribute to a philosophy that you don't like. And it is true that many people choose GPL because they didn't bother to do any research and think it's just a safe default, but enough people do choose it because they believe that proprietary software is evil or morally wrong in some way. Personally I'd like to see BSD become more of a serious contender for the user-friendly FOSS desktop, able to use proprietary blobs of code without legal factors to consider.