Saturday, 16 November 2013 - 4:04pm
I am so sick of this, that I finally reached breaking point with somebody who is far from the worst offender:
Can you please stop depicting Richard Stallman as an unreasonable person unwilling to compromise on anything? It's demonstrably untrue. For instance (unlike many) he is not opposed to the use of no-derivatives clauses in licenses for some kinds of copyrightable works, he oversaw the addition of increased compatibility between the GPL and other (including non-copyleft) free software licenses in GPLv3, and was the original author of the LGPL. The continued misrepresentation of Richard, and the FSF in general, in this way is unjust and immensely harmful to the free software movement. Moreover, presenting a straw man dichotomy between pragmatism and zealotry is an obstacle to clear thinking on important ethical issues.