Artur Grabowski wrote:

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> Han Boetes  writes:

> > > Which is exactly what the GPL people want since that's the whole

> > > point of the license. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the

> > > GPL. Duh.

> >

> > Nah, RMS doesn't want this. A lot of `GPL people' don't want this

> > at all.

>

> I quoted too much. The part I meant was: "This will lead to a

> GPL-lock-in". Yeah, big news.

>

> I think people pay too much attention to this. Some clown made a

> bombastic statement about how things have been working for

> ages. And by that I mean that people write drivers when they get

> documentation and that Linux is the Microsoft of free software

> and they don't give a fuck about neither freedom nor quality of

> their software and will happily sign an NDA just to add another

> product to their feature sheet.

Now you are making a broad generalisation. It's like saying all

muslims are terrorists or all USA people support Bush. I prefer if

you keep a neutral stance on the group and reserve your critisism

for Greg Kroah Hartmann.
For instance Linus Torvalds is firmly against NDA

(http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/12/361)
If you wouldn't say stuff like this I wouldn't even bother

replying.
> None of this is new, none of this is surprising. Why give him

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> more than his 15 minutes of fame by spreading his "I will bend

> over for documentation" bullshit even further?

>

> And if you like conspiracy theories, notice that he's working

> for Novell and this "NDA is good, give us more NDA" stance is

> consistent with the still fresh Novell-Microsoft deal that was

> (in short):  "patents are good, give us more patents".

I think he's quite evil indeed.
# Han