8 May
2017
8 May
'17
1:32 a.m.
On Mon, 8 May 2017 09:30:21 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'In his denunciation of all nonfree software as inherently abusive and unethical, he has alienated many possible allies and followers.'
He is a control freak, and a prophet. He has been right more than once (the dangers of software patents, pitfalls of online services). But some of his policy decisions (e.g. the reluctance to allow a plugin architecture into GCC for fear it would lead to evasion of the GPL) have, I think, been counterproductive. But isn’t it grand that Free Software is all about having a choice? That we can use what he and everybody else working for the FSF has been responsible for, without necessarily having to subscribe to every tenet of his philosophy?