Feeding the Troll on Stallman

Posted Mar 31, 2005 19:18 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777)
In reply to: Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux (OfB) by havoc
Parent article: Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux (OfB)

Foolishly, I bite.

If having a person around who writes good software I use every day, who consistently stands by his principles, who promotes freedom, who is the driving force behind the licenses I use for my software... If having all this is your biggest problem with Linux, then you are in good shape.

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Feeding the Troll on Stallman

Posted Mar 31, 2005 20:17 UTC (Thu) by Zarathustra (guest, #26443) [Link] (4 responses)

> "writes good software"
What good software? I hope you don't mean Godawful-Compiler-Crap, or maybe emacs? uh? you really have a sick idea of "good software", specially of what it means in an Unix philosophy context; RMS never understood Unix, and it shows.

> "consistently stands by his principles"
What principles? those of megalomania and delusions of grandeur? ah, and lets not forget hypocrisy, Gnu (Non)"Free" Documentation License anyone?

The GPL is a cool legal hack, I will give him that, but really, I'm a software developer, not a lawyer, so I'm not too interested in legal hacks, the less I have to do with lawyers and licenses the better, that is why I try to use the simplest and clearest licenses, like BSD or MIT.

Feeding the Troll on Stallman

Posted Mar 31, 2005 20:32 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link] (1 responses)

What good software? I hope you don't mean Godawful-Compiler-Crap

Please let me know when you have released your free compilers that are better than gcc so that I can evaluate and switch.

Feeding the Troll on Stallman

Posted Mar 31, 2005 21:15 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I expect the last GCC he used was 2.7.2.3 or something.

That was after a six-year maintenance hiatus: it's a *lot* nicer now, and improving at great speed.

If he moves to the BSDs, or gets a Mac, he'll be using code built with the same `crap', as well...

(That's assuming that there's any rational thought in that post at all. Yes, Emacs is non-Unixlike and peculiar, but it's not by any stretch of the imagination *bad software*.)

SuperTroll.

Posted Mar 31, 2005 23:50 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link]

"godawful-compiler-crap"? the only ONE REALLY cross-platform
c/c++/objc/ada/fortran compiler EVER?

Feeding the Troll on Stallman

Posted Apr 1, 2005 16:30 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link]

>> What good software? I hope you don't mean Godawful-Compiler-Crap,
>> or maybe emacs?

you are an idiot