Kernel developers' position on GPLv3
Sam Liddicott
sam at liddicott.com
Wed Sep 27 12:02:55 UTC 2006
* Alfred M. Szmidt wrote, On 27/09/06 11:44:
> > You say that simply because you cannot use it how _you_ want, the
> > whole system must be junked, you could simply install a
> > webbrowser and use the system, or a PDF viewer, all of this is
> > free software and not very hard to do. PDF viewers and web
> > browsers are the most basic tools these days.
> >
> > Maybe if you paid the people who made the whole GPLv3 commenting
> > infrastructure you might get what you want, but until then, they
> > are going to work on something the majority of people can use
> > easily, and they have done a wonderful job achiving that IMHO.
>
> This is why you should not have kept out of politics.
>
> The participation mechanism acts as a pre-selector of
> participants. How are we to know how many would-be participants are
> excluded and silent because the participation mechanism excluded
> them.
>
> Nobody has excluded MJ, he is quite free to add such a feature him
> self, or pay someone to do it.
>
I haven't said that MJ was excluded.
I merely commented that your opinion of the system being usable by those
who used it was content free.
I merely commented that FSF are hard put to show that it wasn't a
selective exclusion should someone make the claim.
> The rest of your post I simply do not understand.
>
Well, as I say, you shouldn't have avoided politics.
Sam
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