Recent searches
Search options
#GNU and the #FSF have been fighting for copyleft the past decades. But if you look at their financial statement, you’ll see that their paid staff are just a dozen people. All the others are volunteers.
The Tor project alone has more employees than the FSF. Github has almost 6000 employees. Six thousand.
So the advocates for #copyleft must be us. We can’t point at the FSF and say “they didn’t do it”. They provide resources. We have to use them to protect our freedom as users.
@ArneBab Most people at the FSF aren’t working on GNU except keeping some infrastructure online. Much of the work is done by volunteers.
The reality is that the FSF has some good people but they’re hampered by the fact Stallman has ruined the FSF and copyleft for many of the people who used to be supporters.
FSF finances took a hit in the last few years because of his actions.
Where is this “GNU OS”? Why the insistence on arguing about the name of Linux? All of that eats at any good will.
I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.
I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at a moment's notice and live in the US.
So other than the GPL what has he done since 1998 (generous) that wasn't complaining about the name of Linux? The FSF has done quite a lot when he didn't interfere.
And let's be very clear: GPLv3 was a huge international effort from lots and lots of people, it was not Stallman writing a new license in Emacs and putting it on the website.
@mattl ummm... got in the way of development of gcc?