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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Au79 ] on Sunday 30 July 2006 04:45 \__
>
>> All Headline News - USA
>>
>> New York, NY (AHN) - Linus Torvalds, the man behind the Linux operating
>> system, has a lot to say about Richard Stallman who runs the Free Software
>> Foundation ...
>>
>> <http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004367120>
>
> That is a very ambitious title for this article. Linus takes aim at no-one.
> He simply has a slight disagreement. From the article:
>
> ,----[ Linus: ]
>| "I disagree. I think that 'freedom' is fine, but we're not exactly
>| talking about slavery here. Trying to make it look like we're the
>| Abraham Lincoln of our generation just makes us look stupid and stuck up.
>| I'd much rather talk about 'fairness' and about issues like just being a
>| much better process for generating better code, and having fun while
>| doing so."
> `----
>
> The more controversial statement were something like "Think of RMS as the
> great philosopher and me -- as an engineer".
>
> The frication is sometimes accentuated for no apparent reason. Recently it
> was Canonical and the Debian developers. Now it's GNU and Linux (not just
> the GPL, but also the matter of attribution in the name). Not so long ago it
> was Red Hat and Novell... everyone takes the same aim and contributes to the
> grant goal while the motto remains "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
>
Standard journalistic practice - if the headline didn't appear to be
somewhat controversial, nobody would read the piece! That said, a
certain amount of discussion, debate and disagreement is a sign of a
healthy developing culture, to my mind.
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