____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:13 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Just before the new year began, I raised the issue of GPLv3 in
>> WordPress. The lead developers were curious enough and one of them
>> /did/ say that he met someone who wanted to 'pull a Tivo' on
>> WordPress. It looks as though WP will go v3 some time in the future,
>> but I had to argue with Tivo apologists, who in turn seemed like they
>> simply didn't like the GNU philosophy _in general_, just as Stallman
>> used to warn.
>
> Unfortunately there's a lot of that about. Just look at some of the
> comments in the Gobuntu mailing list, or even the LKML.
>
> Certain people are more than happy to benefit from others' Free
> Software contributions , but when it comes to defending the Freedom that
> *enables* them to use that software, they suddenly become pragmatists.
> Selling oneself out is bad enough, but selling out the Free Software
> community is unforgivable.
>
> It's not a difficult concept. If one *wants* the benefit of Free
> Software, then one should embrace the Free Software philosophy. If not,
> then the world is full of proprietary and encumbered software to choose
> from - they should use it, rather than try to poison the well by
> changing Free Software into their "pragmatic" vision. IMHO that is not
> pragmatism ... it's nothing more than sabotage.
I was rather stunned to find that even in a Free software development list
you'd have people who are merely seeking to exploit. This wasn't the first
such incident and I've been on that list since the start (2004). Either way,
Matt Mullenweg was willing to listen, so it was worth bringing up.
It seems like many GPL haters just use v3 as an excuse to attack. I know two
BSD bloggers who did this.
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Mod me up and I'll mod you 'insightful'"
http://Schestowitz.com | Free as in Free Beer | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Cpu(s): 24.7%us, 4.0%sy, 1.0%ni, 66.7%id, 3.2%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
http://iuron.com - semantic engine to gather information
|
|
