Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then along comes Linus, and the world goes "oooh, shiny!" and ignores or > trivialises GNU in the rush to become part of the cool new thing. > > <nice interpretation> > RMS and co get very offended at this, feel that it's starting to look like, > even if the world does all go Free Software, that they won't have the > indoctrination in Free Software ideals to be able to keep it up. They vow > to ensure that the whole world knows the true virtuous glory of true Free > Software. > </> > > <cynical interpretation> > GNU is pissed that they're not getting all the glory and are trying to use > their licences to push their agenda to the detriment of true freedom. > </> > > I'd like to believe the former. I think, deep down, that it's probably the > first on a conscious level, but it's the latter driving deep in the psyche. > Can't totall fault that - one tends to get rather protective of one's life's > work...
Neither. The Emacs manual contained non-free invariant sections long before Linux was a twinkle in anyone's eye.
