It's about respect.

It's about respect.

Posted Jul 2, 2005 0:31 UTC (Sat) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

By chance I was reading http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html recently and
particularly "I'm about to become a teacher. How can I be a good one?".

Point 1 is about respect. You need to set and maintain high standards. Making the students like you is not so important and making the students respect you, and you do that by having high principles and sticking to them.

I see a connection between this and ESR's comments.

He seems to be saying that the reason for dropping the GPL is that is scares off potential members of our community, and the justification is that we don't really need it any more.

This seems like trying to make people like us by lowering our standards.

Paul Graham, as I read him, would disagree with that approach (at least if we see ourselves as teachers). So would I.

NeilBrown

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