Comment spectecjr: I know why I am here...do you? (Score -1, Offtopic) 44
comments posted to UseNet by Milo T. aka Simon Cooke aka spectecjr
group: comp.os.linux.advocacy
subject: 'I know why I am here...do you?'
msg:
".. I'm also sick of people trying to claim that GNU software is the be-all and end-all when free software existed long before RMS even opened
his yap. I'm sick of people co-opting English words and trying to rewrite their meanings - "Open" and "Free"? What is this marketing garbage? I've also written more open source code than most of the people who post in this newsgroup. The difference being, I don't try to prevent other people from using it by wrapping it in a GPL license." Simon Cooke Nov 02 2003
".. CodeWarrior is frankly a complete piece of shit .. It's amateur hour stuff - and their developers then spend their time bitching on newsgroups about how Microsoft is a monopoly, and that's why they don't have more sales .."
".. Free as in Free Software has a specific
meaning which does not mean freedom to all. It means freedom to all except other people who want to build on that software and sell the combined
results. As I said, the meaning of the word is twisted .."
".. Get this into your thick skull: the people posting on this newsgroup are real, living, breathing, human beings. Don't treat them like
anonymous faceless entities. They're not."
".. I give *everyone* a level of respect as a person from the outset. I don't mind disagreeing with people .."
".. co-opting the terms "free" and "open", when other people have produced free and open software long before the FSF and the GPL even existed is a slap in the face to the people who really do produce free and open software .."
".. Unlike GPL developers, I'm not trying to force everyone who uses my work to give away their work as well."
"George Orwell would be proud of the open source/free software community. All that double-plus-free software that really isn't free at all, when you compare it with software that really *is* free."
".. The claims made by the GPL bunch to this effect really kind of pale when you compare
them to people who really do create software which is "free" and for the good of the community - namely the people who release software as public
domain, or under the BSD license .."
group: comp.os.linux.advocacy
subject: 'I know why I am here...do you?'
msg:
".. I'm also sick of people trying to claim that GNU software is the be-all and end-all when free software existed long before RMS even opened
his yap. I'm sick of people co-opting English words and trying to rewrite their meanings - "Open" and "Free"? What is this marketing garbage? I've also written more open source code than most of the people who post in this newsgroup. The difference being, I don't try to prevent other people from using it by wrapping it in a GPL license." Simon Cooke Nov 02 2003
".. CodeWarrior is frankly a complete piece of shit
".. Free as in Free Software has a specific
meaning which does not mean freedom to all. It means freedom to all except other people who want to build on that software and sell the combined
results. As I said, the meaning of the word is twisted
".. Get this into your thick skull: the people posting on this newsgroup are real, living, breathing, human beings. Don't treat them like
anonymous faceless entities. They're not."
".. I give *everyone* a level of respect as a person from the outset. I don't mind disagreeing with people
".. co-opting the terms "free" and "open", when other people have produced free and open software long before the FSF and the GPL even existed is a slap in the face to the people who really do produce free and open software
".. Unlike GPL developers, I'm not trying to force everyone who uses my work to give away their work as well."
"George Orwell would be proud of the open source/free software community. All that double-plus-free software that really isn't free at all, when you compare it with software that really *is* free."
".. The claims made by the GPL bunch to this effect really kind of pale when you compare
them to people who really do create software which is "free" and for the good of the community - namely the people who release software as public
domain, or under the BSD license
