29 Jan 2002 chalst   » (Master)

tk: If there's anyone to blame for the current open-source mess (both in the ideological sense and in the practical sense), it's RMS. He's turned the whole purpose of hacking upside down. Now sharing code, instead of being a by-product of creating a good program, has become an end in itself.

Hear, hear!

Postscript, 1st Feb: RMS *invented* the license flame industry, which is why Microsoft can get away with the whole `open source doesn't work for business' FUD.

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