Artur Grabowski wrote: > Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Which is exactly what the GPL people want since that's the whole > > > point of the license. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the > > > GPL. Duh. > > > > Nah, RMS doesn't want this. A lot of `GPL people' don't want this > > at all. > > I quoted too much. The part I meant was: "This will lead to a > GPL-lock-in". Yeah, big news. > > I think people pay too much attention to this. Some clown made a > bombastic statement about how things have been working for > ages. And by that I mean that people write drivers when they get > documentation and that Linux is the Microsoft of free software > and they don't give a fuck about neither freedom nor quality of > their software and will happily sign an NDA just to add another > product to their feature sheet.
Now you are making a broad generalisation. It's like saying all muslims are terrorists or all USA people support Bush. I prefer if you keep a neutral stance on the group and reserve your critisism for Greg Kroah Hartmann. For instance Linus Torvalds is firmly against NDA (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/12/361) If you wouldn't say stuff like this I wouldn't even bother replying. > None of this is new, none of this is surprising. Why give him > more than his 15 minutes of fame by spreading his "I will bend > over for documentation" bullshit even further? > > And if you like conspiracy theories, notice that he's working > for Novell and this "NDA is good, give us more NDA" stance is > consistent with the still fresh Novell-Microsoft deal that was > (in short): "patents are good, give us more patents". I think he's quite evil indeed. # Han
