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Another Fine Rant

Another Fine Rant

Posted Mar 28, 2008 18:00 UTC (Fri) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)
In reply to: Maturity (or lack thereof) by landley
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Yes, yes, yes.  I gathered all that from your previous rant.  I also noticed that you admitted
-- twice now -- that you were planning to do nothing about the GPLv3 until Bruce Perens ticked
you off.  I'm having trouble imagining the Free Software Foundation trembling in fear of your
wrath, but your motivation is clearly petty spite.

Since you're wandering off topic at length I'll take the liberty of debunking two of your more
bizarre distortions.  First, characterizing Perens' activity on the BusyBox list as "advocacy"
is a stretch.  As I read it he was objecting the removal of the "or later" clause from a
project based on his original work and arguments about the merits of the GPLv3 were a side
issue.  Second, Debian has had infighting for as long as it has been around.  Consider what's
going on around dpkg for a recent example.  Laying this at the feet of Bruce Perens is silly.
For someone so concerned with what makes effective advocacy, you seem blissfully unaware of the
effect all this foaming at the mouth has on your own credibility.


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