9 May
2017
9 May
'17
5:13 a.m.
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?
You can't expect anyone to be 100% correct on everything.