[ClearCase_guy]

Stallman risks becoming irrelevant

Well. That would be a shame. [/sarcasm]

[N3WBI3]

Basically a hit piece on stallman, not that he does not have it coming.

Personally I hope there is a split, it would push RedHat, Novell, and a few others back a few months but the code licensed under gpl2 could be extended w/out stallman and his band of Merry misfits..

[N3WBI3]

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[Tribune7]

Steve Jobs is looking pretty smart.

[antiRepublicrat]

Lyons again I see, talking about that which he knows just enough to be dangerous. OTOH, while there are numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations in this article, he at least he gets across the state of the open source community, which is that there are a lot of people who don't agree with Stallman's fanaticism.

[rzeznikj at stout]

All good points--so I won't reiterate what's been said...

IMHO, we're better off with GPL v2--the third version is waaaaay too political.

Hey, as long as Slack doesn't contain v3 stuff--i'll be happy...8^)

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks for posting this, it's rare that we get an accurate article from a respected publication when threads about open source are created here.

Stallman is without question a radical leftist, an admitted greenie, who parrots anti-American propaganda on his personal website, and whose admitted goal is to make all software his definition of "free", while having the government help provide it via a "software tax".

While the open source pumpers on this site would have you believe he is just a crazy old man that has little actual impact on the industry, he is in reality well known as "the father of free software" and his GPL license is used on ~75% of all open source products registered at the defacto sourceforge repository.

He is without question the most powerful man in open source and free software, with a very large group of dedicated followers across the globe, many of which actually sign their copyrights away to his organization as the ultimate tribute.

Forbes is right to draw attention to his radical anti-capitalist lunacy, and hopefully he will self destruct or force the companies currently using his software to finally reject his products and philosophy, but they should have known better all along.

[beezdotcom]

Stallman and his allies hacked away for nearly a decade but couldn't get GNU to work.

Which would explain his obsession over Linux now...Ahab has his white whale.

[kevkrom]

If there's a split, expect the "V2" folks to win, because the folks shipping distros for profit are going to back the "V2" side. And, frankly, good... Stallman is over-reaching with the V3 license.

[dennisw]

bttt

[MadIvan]

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Regards, Ivan