Comments on: How To Irritate The Free Software Foundation

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:54:52 +0000

Sounds like to me that these GPL hippys just want a piece of Apple's pie. ie, $$$ and lots of it!

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:54:52 +0000

Sounds like to me that these GPL hippys just want a piece of Apple’s pie. ie, $$$ and lots of it!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:48:28 +0000

Yea, I usually prefere not to be called “crazy” but no matter.

The SFLC is the FSF's legal counsel, as quoted from their site in regards to GPL v 3.0,

“…The global process will be overseen by the Free Software Foundation with support from its legal counsel the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC). Free Software Foundation Europe will be coordinating the European activities closely with both organisations and contributing to the global communication effort.”

Now whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing, I do not venture to guess. However, I still believe that the SFLC is claiming that Stallman's works have been misused by Apple.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, I love a bit of debate every now and then.

By: k

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:38:47 +0000

Steve, so you don't agree with that part of my post where I imply you are a 'crazy man'??? I was responding to Dave's comments, and I apologise for expressing my frustration that way.

I'd still like to know what, if anything, Stallman has actually contended. While he clearly has his own heavily biased view of reality, I believe he is amazingly careful when it comes to making statements of fact. His name does not appear on this page of the SFLC team.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:31:36 +0000

The portion of K's argument that I will agree with is that it might be a telephone game, but quoting from Fake Steve Jobs',

"According to our legal team the complaint was prepared by lawyers from the Software Freedom Law Center. Gist of the complaint is that crucial pieces of OS X and Safari were originally designed by Richard Stallman or designed by others who turned over their copyrights to Stallman"

If this is false, then I guess I'm wrong. Chances are fairly good that the suit was filed, however. I'm open to proofs to the contrary.

By: k

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:21:07 +0000

And by 'tell the crazy man to shut up', I hope you mean the author of this article above. Where is the evidence of Stallman or and FSF official making an unjustified -claim- about Apple's software? Somebody -posed a question- which has been taken out of context, and people are playing the telephone game, distorting it further with each retelling. Lets see some concrete evidence of -what Stallman actually said-.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:48:28 +0000

Yea, I usually prefere not to be called “crazy” but no matter.

The SFLC is the FSF’s legal counsel, as quoted from their site in regards to GPL v 3.0,

Now whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing, I do not venture to guess. However, I still believe that the SFLC is claiming that Stallman’s works have been misused by Apple.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, I love a bit of debate every now and then.

By: k

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:38:47 +0000

Steve, so you don’t agree with that part of my post where I imply you are a ‘crazy man’??? I was responding to Dave’s comments, and I apologise for expressing my frustration that way.

I’d still like to know what, if anything, Stallman has actually contended. While he clearly has his own heavily biased view of reality, I believe he is amazingly careful when it comes to making statements of fact. His name does not appear on this page of the SFLC team.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:31:36 +0000

The portion of K’s argument that I will agree with is that it might be a telephone game, but quoting from Fake Steve Jobs’,

“According to our legal team the complaint was prepared by lawyers from the Software Freedom Law Center. Gist of the complaint is that crucial pieces of OS X and Safari were originally designed by Richard Stallman or designed by others who turned over their copyrights to Stallman”

If this is false, then I guess I’m wrong. Chances are fairly good that the suit was filed, however. I’m open to proofs to the contrary.

By: k

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:21:07 +0000

And by ‘tell the crazy man to shut up’, I hope you mean the author of this article above. Where is the evidence of Stallman or and FSF official making an unjustified -claim- about Apple’s software? Somebody -posed a question- which has been taken out of context, and people are playing the telephone game, distorting it further with each retelling. Lets see some concrete evidence of -what Stallman actually said-.