It's about time those clowns showed some backbone [LWN.net]

It's about time those clowns showed some backbone

Posted Nov 19, 2007 0:35 UTC (Mon) by squiggleslash (guest, #49117)
In reply to: It's about time those clowns showed some backbone by esr
Parent article: Red Hat legal speaks

What on Earth has happened to ESR?

The above article seems to be little more than some pointless bile spewing. It's at a contributing member of our community, RedHat, and seems to do little but insult and demean them for little or no reason.

Fedora didn't support proprietary codecs? And? Why is he treating this as if RedHat was supporting the holocaust or trying to steal Eric's guns? RedHat had their reasons, they're actually pretty reasonable, they damaged nobody in sticking to their guns, all they did was make their distribution of free GNU/Linux fractionally harder to use.

It was bad enough when Raymond encouraged the factionalization of the Free Software community into "Open Source" and "Free"; now he appears to be intent on creating more splits within the sub-movement he co-founded.

Again, the free software and open source communities would do well to ignore the shrill voices of division, conflict, and alienation and look for those who promote calm, professional, unity.

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