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Well I Googl'ed: gnu fsf "you're either with us or against us" And it turns out that the idea shows up more than once. So it must be at least believed by s
by jebblue 13y ago
Well I Googl'ed:
gnu fsf "you're either with us or against us"
And it turns out that the idea shows up more than once. So it must be at least believed by some to be true.
That includes this interesting post on Slashdot from 2001:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/01/12/13/0242205/miguel-de-icaza-interview-on-msdn http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/01/12/13/0242205/miguel...
In particular, a comment by ukryule seems especially applicable:
"Taken in the spirit intended. I accept that the GNU principles are quite clearly defined - but is it really the case that "you're either with us or against us"? The original post was asking about Ximian "abandoning it's GNU values" - to which I think pointing out the open-source work it is doing is a perfectly valid response (it shows that the company at least has common ground with GNU). To be fair, I don't know if Ximian (the company) ever supported GNU values ... but if they continue to spend say 80% of their time on GPL'd sw and the other 20% on prorietory sw does this imply they do or don't support GNU values? "
- bjourne 13y agoThis must be the most intellectually dishonest comment I've read in a while. Either find someone from FSF who's written what you're claiming or this discussion is over. Finding unrelated people who feels something about the FSF's position and quoting that.. is just silly.
- jebblue 13y agoYou must be confused. I'm not claiming anything at all. I'm saying Google something and I'm saying someone wrote something 13 years ago. Any conclusions you draw are your own.
- dllthomas 13y agoI don't think anyone was arguing that the FSF being all-or-nothing, us-and-them, with-us-or-against-us was not a prevalent meme amongst their detractors. It long has been. The question was whether it is an accurate description of their positions.