Joseph Carter wrote: > Ahh, you mean use a license that grants me NO PROTECTION AT ALL or use a > license that grants me lots of protection, but prevents other people from > using it unless they agree with RMS' ideals? I don't agree with RMS' > ideals. RMS' ideals involve taking away the choice to use non-free > software, I won't support that! RMS' ideals are about his marginalized > and to be quite honest unrealistic view of the world. The GPL is his > attempt to force his view on others and now more than ever he's trying to > cram his views down our throats.
Yet he is remarkably successful in all this forcing and cramming, particularly given his lack of means of coercion. I think it is more likely that there is actually a large group of people who agree with him. How do you think Lintian came to be distributed under the GPL? RMS certainly didn't tell us to. > He has already proposed on more than one occasion that Debian get rid of > the nasty (in his mind) point on our social contract to support people > who use non-free software and has taken steps to cause us to all but > delete the contrib and non-free portions of our archive in potato. It's > about time someone stood up and pushed for just a little bit of realism > here. Cites, please. I have never seen him propose this, and I have seen none of these steps. You are misrepresenting him. Richard Braakman
