RMS Condemns "UnitedLinux" per-seat License 749
dep writes "Likening the practice to Windows, Richard M. Stallman has issued a brief statement condemning the per-seat licensing that it appears will be employed in the "UnitedLinux" core distribution. He calls upon developers to refuse to allow their work to be used by such a distribution."
nah, that aint what pisses him off.... (Score:4, Funny)
Well that settles it! (Score:5, Funny)
Hang on, I was going to do that anyway. . .
Read title carefully (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Read title carefully (Score:3, Funny)
Ouch!
developer refusal. (Score:5, Funny)
I would refuse to allow my work to be included, but I licensed it under the GPL, so I can't.
RMS #$#@'d in head head as usual ... (Score:3, Funny)
As for the proprietary software, something has to be done to ensure that they survive. Otherwise, there will be only two Linux companies, and eventually there will only be IBM.
Sometimes I feel like I'm watching a bad episode of Highlander when I observe the Linux crowd.
Re:Is there anything that RMS likes? (Score:2, Funny)
D'oh!
Re:Nobody likes GNU / Linux ?! (Score:1, Funny)
Something rms does constantly...
What is the value add? (Score:5, Funny)
It seems like these companies have a strange way of differentiating themselves from the competition. I can only imagine the meeting this came out of:
Executive 1: "How can we go up against Microsoft and Red Hat?"
Executive 2: [thinks real hard, smoke starts coming out of his ears] "Uh....I dunno."
Executive 3: "Add a free liverwurst sandwich in each box?"
Executive 1: "No one wants that!"
Executive 2: "I might want it."
Executive 1: "No, you wouldn't! That's gross!"
Executive 2: "Well, if I was a Linux user I might."
Executive 1: "Come on, even they aren't that disgusting."
Executive 4: "Hey, I think you're on to something! Let's include something that almost no one wants! Like...hmmm...uh....hmm..." [his forehead starts to sizzle as his brain goes into overdrive]
Executive 2: "I know! A Microsoft-style restrictive license! Red Hat doesn't have that, and Microsoft doesn't have the Free Source software like we do! It'll give us a competi...uh...competi...uh..."
Executive 1: "Competitive advantage?"
Executive 3: "You said 'titi'!" [Falls out of his high-backed, cushioned chair, laughing]
Yup, that's probably pretty much how it went. (I'll let you figure out which exec is which.)
-Joe
Re:nah, that aint what pisses him off.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Read title carefully (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Will you just leave RMS alone ?! (Score:5, Funny)
You must mean "sticking to his gnus"
GNU+Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Absurd (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? RMS is actively encouraging [gnu.org] people who redistribute GPL'd software to charge as much as possible.