> And the GPLv3? He was the puppet that sold it, but the text was > mostly written by a bunch of lawyers who will take care of it after > Richard dies. And they've made sure that there are holes in the > less-free GPLv3, and they will make a lot of money off those who > voilate the interpretation they get out of judges, once Richard dies. > Ethics? Who cares. Once Richard dies, it will be a feeding frenzy. > His hypocrisy just makes it even more of a sure thing.
By this I mean the GPLv3 and GPLv2 could mean exactly what they are written to mean, and thus be easily understood once court cases happen (... OK, now nearly everyone is laughing, but try to re-read it seriously). ... but when the leader hypocritically walks around describing new 'rules' that people must follow for 'his approval'... that won't impress a judge later. It will un-impress a judge later. It will show that the author's intent was muddled. It will show that the authors who adopted the license had a muddled viewpoint. It's nice to have a public archive of Richard's spew since we don't have to save each message; it shows a pattern of his own GPL'd software being exempt from the rules he holds everyone to, especially special targets (and apparently we are target of the month). Richard, and many of you, live in the US where case law will decide some of these issues. I don't think that is a good thing, but it is what will happen, at least in the US, if the economy doesn't tank fast enough to make 'the empire' irrelevant. But once Richard dies, what happens then will not be predicated on dead Richard's stupid rules. (Perhaps his leg will get cut off). As well, we know that this GPLv3 thing was mostly designed by Eben and friends, and they hope to outlive Richard, and very richly indeed). What has Richard done recently, except moan and set unreasonable standards for projects he has nothing to do with... on our mailing lists? Regarding the 'plural' FSF and their agenda these days... I think we all know that crackpot Richard is no longer the real leader. He's a senile puppet who gets lots of flights paid for by your misguided donations dollars to ensure he's kept out of touch (except on one airline, I think Delta, who banned him for air-rage a decade ago on his way to a Usenix conference). The real FSF agenda has been dumbed down from what Richard used to believe, and it will dumb down further as he loses control (except for the particularily nasty legal side parcelled out to Eben's SFLC). Meanwhile, Richard cranks up 'his rules' against rather small groups (like OpenBSD) because he lost the OS war with HURD, and the Linux people don't care what he says. Wait, it isn't that they don't care what he says -- they don't give a rats damn. He has absolutely zero credit with them. Richard tried repeatedly to screw Linux as a whole, and it's just that noone has really let the press know yet in those terms. Richard is irrelevant there. Richard does not understand that the entire free source world is a meritocracy of source code creation and modification. He has done nothing in 10-15 years, except wave his long hair and moan in front of crowds, and lay down ground rules for projects he has no actual involvement in. I commited a 2500 line diff today becuase it was fun. It will let two other developers (who I raced to write this..) continue their work on a priv-sep snmp daemon (translation: no holes, hopefully, ever). Yeah, not everything is glory, but it was code that I produced, and it was fun, and it will matter to some, and it is what actually matters 'as credit' in our communities. I did not actually do much except put in the time and the effort to do what others could have done. Meanwhile, Richard writes no code, thus he does not matter, and walks around talking about what we do or don't do, and with all his spare time he doesn't even do the RESEARCH TO MAKE SURE THAT HE IS NO TALKING BULLSHIT. And so he talks BULLSHIT, and gets called a hypocrite. But he's in too deep, isn't he. His credit has degraded to zero, and his foaming on relatively small mailing lists makes it go even faster. His hypocrisy is in part because he has no control anymore; his continual protests on our lists are because he has no control on lists where it might matter. His continual adjustment of his rules is because he can find no "edge" anymore. He is irrelevant, and he can't cope with that. Richard is not even anymore an alternative viewpoint that should be considered, for the simple reason that any road towards his absolutist views ensures that his hypocrisy will be exposed. It's like the TV advertisement of the monk who protects turtles and bugs, but then kills germs when he sneezes into kleenex -- what a shock; but that is a funny advertisement. Richard is not a funny advertisement. He's a pathetic joke. He should spot the falicy, and back down. No leader with such a pile of FSF donation money should come onto our list and picks a fight where he looks like a hypocrite. He thinks he can afford it, but in fact he is the last person who can afford it. He's lashing out in directions that he thinks he can get away with, and that is because he would look even more stupid on mailing lists for major Linux vendors. Linux. Linux. Linux. Can you imagine him going onto LKML? I'd watch. It'd be funny. (LKM is the Linux kernel mailing list. Note. Linux, Linux, Linux.) As for ourselves, we are not afraid to keep being brave by giving our software away. We'll keep doing what is right, giving software away in the ways that please us, and Richard Stallman and his stupid rules-for-approval can go to hell (and hopefully soon... because it will get him off our mailing lists). We'll keep doing what we do, and Richard has only hurt himself by speaking.
