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Given Stallman's background with Emacs and lisps in general, the idea that he doesn't understand the idea of implementing a program in two languages is pretty h
by technomancy 11y ago
Given Stallman's background with Emacs and lisps in general, the idea that he doesn't understand the idea of implementing a program in two languages is pretty hilarious.
- srean 11y agoUpvoted your comment. I personally lean more towards the LGPL side than BSD/MIT when I can. So it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect me to side with Stallman's view quite often. In spite of that I find this Tcl vs Guile flame wars as a distinct low point in the permissive licenses eco-system / cultural history. I cannot see anything good that came out of it. I will however qualify my disapproval a bit, may be the fear that Sun would exert and impose unwelcome control was a real one at that time, I wouldn't know. So my (easy, lazy) criticism is of course from the privileged position of hindsight.