Of course the difference between the BSD license and the GPL is important. Plenty of people involved in the Open Source movement prefer the GPL or LGPL to other licenses. Just because it's GPL'd doesn't mean that the people authoring the software fall into the Free SW camp. Linus, for instance, is very much an Open Source person and not a Free Software person- witness RMS's recent flaming of the kernel lists due to the use of Bitkeeper for one example.
RMS has done a lot of important stuff for the community. However, he needs to face up to the fact that he's lost the terminology war and move on.
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Re:Is it called GNU/Crybaby?
Posted by: jensend on March 18, 2003 10:38 AMRMS has done a lot of important stuff for the community. However, he needs to face up to the fact that he's lost the terminology war and move on.
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