On 25/10/06, Dinesh Shah dineshah@gmail.com wrote:
The idea behind the posting the link is to make aware how the "popular" press/media perceives Free Software.
good you did that Dinesh Ji.
Any amount of name calling or rhetoric is not going to help Free Software. Whether we like them or not these popular media shapes the opinion of the people, more important of them is decision makers.
right. and the more they will adopt good or dirty means what ever, people will go more and more away from this concept and movement. the best thing these m$ and company have found out is to ignite a fire between linus and rms. Divide and rule? first of all unfortunately people don't seam to understand gpl v3. and I think any one who wants to write any thing for or against FOSS, must be very sure of what he or she is saying. I think it was right and obvious jtd used that word for the writer. that is exactly what even I feel. and what he has to do with personal life of rms or any one for that matter! he does not even seam to understand the fact that linux is just a kernel. in the opening lines itself he lost his wicket. he calls linus the developer of the "linux operating system". did he not know that there is some thing called the herd kernel? may be it is not that developed or that popular. but since linus did a good job any ways, herd was like doing same things again and again. and who is preventing linus from using any license version of gpl? correct me if I am wrong, gpl2 is not prevented by gpl3?
What credible answers we can provide? Instead of RMS refusing to talk to this fellow just because he calls GNU/Linux as Linux, is just a lost opportunity to make your *point*.
I agree here with dinesh. but again if you read that article properly, the "*** jtd's term" writer, is more on personal comments and dirty writing. why should rms even care about such things? but I think yes, rms must talk with linus and company. and what is wrong for linus to except that his development is the most important but not the only thing that makes an operating system? what is wrong to call it gnu/linux? after all linux is just a kernel.
We, as community, have to seriously learn to *manage* the media.
as I said above one has to be very studious and clear about what one says. I promised the lug that I will soon start writing. but I am also studying the matter deeply and seriously, consulting lawyers and advocates of both free and non-free software. my set of articles will soon appear in the press. regards. Krishnakant.