Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2006 01:56 AM
I do share your happiness that RMS/FSF/GPL/GNU has been numerically "successful", but more importantly the principles of "freedom"
Oh, but *I* personally fully agree. But keep in mind that I was addressing the RMS/FSF/GPL/GNU -bashers for whom values, as such, have no intrinsic value whatsoever. They care for "business models", "corporate acceptance" and "non-restrictive licenses". Basically, they like something if it is effective and, I have to say, they have a point here. What they do totally miss, is that right values are the single most effective way to achieve their goals, in particular in the middle-to-long term. That was my point. "Valuess -less" concepts such as "open source" and "value - less" naming conventions such as naming the OS for the kernel are, at beast, short term fixes to immediate goals.
But then, most of them come from a kulture which associates freedom with anarchy, peace with hippes, equitable sharing with communism and principles of any kind with "zealotry"...
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Re:remember these facts next time
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2006 01:56 AMOh, but *I* personally fully agree. But keep in mind that I was addressing the RMS/FSF/GPL/GNU -bashers for whom values, as such, have no intrinsic value whatsoever. They care for "business models", "corporate acceptance" and "non-restrictive licenses". Basically, they like something if it is effective and, I have to say, they have a point here. What they do totally miss, is that right values are the single most effective way to achieve their goals, in particular in the middle-to-long term. That was my point. "Valuess -less" concepts such as "open source" and "value - less" naming conventions such as naming the OS for the kernel are, at beast, short term fixes to immediate goals.
But then, most of them come from a kulture which associates freedom with anarchy, peace with hippes, equitable sharing with communism and principles of any kind with "zealotry"...
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