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Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)Posted Dec 6, 2006 16:18 UTC (Wed) by marduk (subscriber, #3831)Parent article: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)
Didn't at one time, before Linux became popular, the FSF did development on HP-UX boxes, among others?
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Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) Posted Dec 6, 2006 17:42 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] The original GNU development in the 80s was done on many differentUnices, since there was no free OS available yet to develop on. It was all bootstrapping toward the goal of creating an entirely free OS. My understanding is that their primary platform has been Debian for a very long time now.
Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) Posted Dec 7, 2006 15:13 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Richard explained this decision in one of his talks. He said that temporary use of proprietary software for the purpose of helping others to escape from that software is justified just as joining a gang to infultrate it and have its members arrested is justified.
Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) Posted Dec 7, 2006 15:18 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] I think it was this talk: In the QandA session; so near the end somewhere. It's an interesting talk about Copyright vs. Community in the age of computer networks.
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