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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

 

Will Mr. Stallman be Toppling Linux One Day?

EXTERNAL LINKMr. Daniel Lyons has EXTERNAL LINKpublished on EXTERNAL LINKForbes quite scathing an article on Mr. Stallman's position with regard to Intellectual Property:
"The free Linux operating system set off one of the biggest revolutions in the history of computing when it leapt from the fingertips of a Finnish college kid named Linus Torvalds 15 years ago. Linux now drives $15 billion in annual sales of hardware, software and services, and this wondrous bit of code has been tweaked by thousands of independent programmers to run the world's most powerful supercomputers, the latest cell phones and TiVo video recorders and other gadgets.

But while Torvalds has been enshrined as the Linux movement's creator, a lesser-known programmer - infamously more obstinate and far more eccentric than Torvalds - wields a startling amount of control as this revolution's resident enforcer. Richard M. Stallman is a 53-year-old anti-corporate crusader who has argued for 20 years that most software should be free of charge. He and a band of anarchist acolytes long have waged war on the commercial software industry, dubbing tech giants 'evil' and 'enemies of freedom' because they rake in sales and enforce patents and copyrights - when he argues they should be giving it all away. [...]"
Surely there was an EXTERNAL LINKuproar on Slashdot and apparently, as was to be expected, Mr. Daniel Lyons EXTERNAL LINKgot some hate mail. Maybe that in some details Mr. Lyons' article appears to be a bit imprecise and even biased but altogether I think it is proper to say that Mr. Stallman is the major obstacle for any realistic solution when it comes to discussing patenting of computer-implemented inventions.

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I don't quite understand your point here. Indeed Stallman is firmly against any form of patenting or, for that matter, copyright. I don't quite see how he's standing in the way of a "realistic solution when it comes to discussing patenting of computer-implemented inventions". He'd wish he did :).
 
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