The 2.6.28-libre kernel is out

I guess warning people about the dangers of blindly following an irresponsible and unconcerned lead might come off as FUD, indeed. I guess I could have sticked to the issue of respect for users' freedoms (my undisputed political agenda), but it really makes me sick when people raise arguments whose validity they have evidently not assessed as to the issue at hand. I guess for most people it's just easier to follow the lead blindly, hoping things will turn out all right. Hopefully it will.

But you can't count on that unless you keep your freedom, and unfortunately the lead many follow misleads them to give up their freedoms. That's quite disappointing. And it's not like his lack of concern for freedom, his own and that of those who follow him, have never been proven wrong: remember BitKeeper? Sure, now we have git, but wouldn't we have had some such thing earlier if it wasn't for the outrageous licensing terms, that prevented people who followed that lead from working on such tools?

Happy GNU Year!