smile politely at foaming mouthed zealots

Posted Sep 27, 2006 0:02 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: smile politely at foaming mouthed zealots by mingo
Parent article: Why Torvalds is sitting out the GPLv3 process (Linux.com)

Indeed. If I thought the Stallmanites could actually get anywhere, they'd scare me a lot more than the Microsofts and IBMs of this world. As it is, though, they are mainly just a vocal nuisance who get the rest of us laughed at more than we would be otherwise.

I think there is probably a good bit of truth to Linus' feeling that much of the discussion is driven by people who talk more than they code. i.e. politically oriented people advocating a license without having much or any code of their own to go under it.

politely feed the name-calling trolls

Posted Sep 27, 2006 10:15 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (guest, #2322) [Link]

> "foaming mouthed zealots"
> "vocal nuisance".

It's ad hominem attacks like these that get "the rest of us" laughed
at -- not the clear-headed discussion of facts and statement of ethical
positions and technical concerns like in most of the other posts.