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I wonder why is it always the anti-GNU people who are behaving like raging teenagers? I have never heard FSF advocate call people zealot or "fucking idiotic" fo

by glogla 13y ago

I wonder why is it always the anti-GNU people who are behaving like raging teenagers? I have never heard FSF advocate call people zealot or "fucking idiotic" for preferring other license, but the other way around it's a rather common occurrence. I don't want to generalize, but I guess it has to do with they kinds of people who like and dislike GNU. The day when people will say "oh I like BSD better" instead of "OMG BSD is much more free you are fucking idiots for liking GPL" will be a good day.

Karunamon 13y ago
Who'd have thought? Some people don't like being called "evil" for what they choose to do with their code.
- belorn 13y ago
  Who has ever called BSD "evil"? They do have a devil icon (a point Uncyclopedia is having fun with), but who in their right mind would call BSD evil as a concept? Proprietary software is sometimes called evil by the free software movement. It is after all the very model that the movement was created to destroy. The environmentalist movement will also call deforestation "evil", as well as anyone who dump oil into the oceans. BSD however are not Proprietary software. Is it possible, that this discussion is not really about BSD, but rather you using it as a front for your own interesting in proprietary software model. In that case, you are being very dishonest.
  - Karunamon 13y ago
    I wasn't even talking about BSD. I was talking about the FSF's propensity to throw around words like "evil" when discussing non-open-source software. The whole BSD thing is a misunderstanding by you and a guy upthread. I never stated anything about BSD's superiority, only that it is an objectively more open license. GPL has objectively more restrictions and de facto associates you with a group that many don't want to be seen as part of.

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I wonder why is it always the anti-GNU people who are behaving like raging teenagers? I have never heard FSF advocate call people zealot or "fucking idiotic" fo

by glogla 13y ago

Karunamon 13y ago
Who'd have thought? Some people don't like being called "evil" for what they choose to do with their code.
- belorn 13y ago
  Who has ever called BSD "evil"? They do have a devil icon (a point Uncyclopedia is having fun with), but who in their right mind would call BSD evil as a concept? Proprietary software is sometimes called evil by the free software movement. It is after all the very model that the movement was created to destroy. The environmentalist movement will also call deforestation "evil", as well as anyone who dump oil into the oceans. BSD however are not Proprietary software. Is it possible, that this discussion is not really about BSD, but rather you using it as a front for your own interesting in proprietary software model. In that case, you are being very dishonest.
  - Karunamon 13y ago
    I wasn't even talking about BSD. I was talking about the FSF's propensity to throw around words like "evil" when discussing non-open-source software. The whole BSD thing is a misunderstanding by you and a guy upthread. I never stated anything about BSD's superiority, only that it is an objectively more open license. GPL has objectively more restrictions and de facto associates you with a group that many don't want to be seen as part of.