Re:Joe Hewitt: Android and Open Source
by kenjackson on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @08:33PM
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Yeah, I was using a bit of hyperbole with RMS. Taking someone who is the most pedantic about naming, e.g., GNU/Linux, and most extreme about what freedom and openness is, and then making a joke that he even thinks Joe has taken it too far.
Right, that's why it's been in the top 5 of HN for two days.
> Even RMS is probably saying, "You're being a bit pedantic here[...]"
Have you ever read a word of RMS? :P
His position would be that Hewitt is being insufficiently pedantic, particularly with regard to the complete closed-ness of the hardware and manufacturer/carrier-specific software.