On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Well. There are several categories of "GNU People". If you mean > contributors to FSF-copyrighted projects, then these are the views I've > seen: > > 1. The FDL is repugnantly non-free. We tried to convince RMS, who runs > the FSF as his personal fiefdom, and he wouldn't listen. What can > we do now? (There are a fair number of us in this category.) Put up a webpage that will serve as a petition. > 2. I don't care about documentation licensing. > > 3. I don't care about documentation at all. > > 4. I don't care about "freedom" of software or documentation, as > long as I can use it. (This is a surprising collection of people, who > simply use GCC or Autoconf, for example, and want to "help out", but would > probably do the same for Microsoft Windows if they could. Linus > Torvalds would belong in this category...) I think the "hearts and minds" of the above people are what RMS is trying to win over with the GNU FDL. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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