Open source v. Free software [LWN.net]

Open source v. Free software

Posted Jul 2, 2005 6:42 UTC (Sat) by philips (guest, #937)
In reply to: Open source v. Free software by bojan
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

Judging by silliness of what he is saying this days, I can tell he is reaching maturity level of RMS.

Thou I do not agree most of the times with both - ESR & RMS - I'd rather have them in
community and have them talking. This is the silence which kills communities, not drunk
speeches.

P.S. I'd rather say, this is ESR's call against RMS. And it is good as any of RMS' calls against
proprietary licenses. Thou RMS normally causes much less noise.

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rms not "immature"

Posted Jul 3, 2005 0:26 UTC (Sun) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I would hardly call Richard immature. Infuriating sometimes, yes. But not immature. Just because he's very narrowly focused on a few things which matter very much to him doesn't make him immature. On the contrary: the firmness of his commitment to freedom through 20 years of struggle makes me admire his maturity. Perhaps he isn't as good at dealing with people as some others. (I would probably be a little snippy myself if I had to deal with some of the epithets that have been thrown at him.) But social smoothness is not the sum total of maturity.