andygrimm (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} andygrimm) wrote,@ 2007-05-13 23:20:00 |
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Take THAT, Stallman!
This just made me laugh. I was reading this article about the oncoming Microsoft patent war against open source software:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fort
and they started talking about RMS. They tried to write this article for someone who has absolutely no knowledge of the history of FOSS, but clearly the person writing has some opinions that he couldn't hold back:
"By 1991, Stallman and his collaborators had conjured an entire free operating system, which is today known as Linux. Though large portions were created by Stallman's GNU developers, the kernel was the work of an independent project led by the then 20-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds, after whom the system is now named. (Stallman insists that "GNU/Linux" is the proper name, and he refuses to give interviews to reporters unless they promise to call it that in every reference. In part for that reason, he was not interviewed for this article.)"
Seriously, you didn't interview him because you're taking a stand against saying "GNU/Linux"? You're CNN, and you're taking sides in the petty "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux" debate? Come on...
This just made me laugh. I was reading this article about the oncoming Microsoft patent war against open source software:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fort
and they started talking about RMS. They tried to write this article for someone who has absolutely no knowledge of the history of FOSS, but clearly the person writing has some opinions that he couldn't hold back:
"By 1991, Stallman and his collaborators had conjured an entire free operating system, which is today known as Linux. Though large portions were created by Stallman's GNU developers, the kernel was the work of an independent project led by the then 20-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds, after whom the system is now named. (Stallman insists that "GNU/Linux" is the proper name, and he refuses to give interviews to reporters unless they promise to call it that in every reference. In part for that reason, he was not interviewed for this article.)"
Seriously, you didn't interview him because you're taking a stand against saying "GNU/Linux"? You're CNN, and you're taking sides in the petty "Linux" versus "GNU/Linux" debate? Come on...
