>> The "GNU Manifesto" by Richard Stallman can be found here:
>>
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/info/GNUGNU
>>
>> If Stallman actually believed a word of what he wrote above, he would
>> still be dedicating all of his works to the public domain since it
>> would have no restrictions. In short, Stallman is a liar. Stallman
>> may
>
> I think you may be letting your emotions carry you a long a little.
> Not very conductive in a situation like this. I've always viewed the
> bsd as preserving the rights of the distributors, and the gpl as
> preserving the rights of the distributees.
>
> Really, I don't see what's the fuss with trying to pull stallman into
> this fight. It's not his fight, the kernel is not controlled by the
> fsf, and in fact, Linus often has issues with stallman. Should any
> discussion about democracy pull in the ancient greeks as well? These
> red herring fights do not help any on the main topic, which is - some
> kernel developers are going overboard in their zeal to gpl code,
> including stealing other people's code. And even the word stealing
> may not be appropriate, depending on the intentions - if all we want
> to do is browbeat them into submission, and cry uncle, that's a
> perfectly fine word to use. If we want to show them that they're
> being silly, another word ought to be chosen.
