Re:Automatic Programming
by its_ubuntu on Sunday February 01, 2026 @02:36PM
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Which was in fact the very intent of the GPL from day one, putting all the marketing material and lies aside: to cripple and hinder the burgeoning open source ecosystem as long as possible.
This also explains decades of questionable decisions of projects like gcc, glibc, gimp (it's right there in the name!), gnome, etc. Richard Stallman is a plant.
Note his recent speech at the Georgia Tech, where he says a lot of very nice things, I'm sure...while wearing some goofy face mask like he's still scared to death of COVID. He is also well known for his lack of personal hygiene and well developed body odor, which is quite curious actually, as at least one person who put this character up for a few days reports that he is a fan of long, hot showers. It's almost like the whole "crusty bearded geek weirdo" thing is just an act, meant to give Free Software a bad reputation.
Reminds me very much of David McGowan's book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, in which he explains exactly who created the hippie movement and to what end. Exactly like that, in fact.
Great thing so many open source projects have willingly donated all their copyright ownership to the hands of this GNU organization, right? It will be closely guarded and protected, I'm sure.
This also explains decades of questionable decisions of projects like gcc, glibc, gimp (it's right there in the name!), gnome, etc. Richard Stallman is a plant.
Note his recent speech at the Georgia Tech, where he says a lot of very nice things, I'm sure...while wearing some goofy face mask like he's still scared to death of COVID. He is also well known for his lack of personal hygiene and well developed body odor, which is quite curious actually, as at least one person who put this character up for a few days reports that he is a fan of long, hot showers. It's almost like the whole "crusty bearded geek weirdo" thing is just an act, meant to give Free Software a bad reputation.
Reminds me very much of David McGowan's book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, in which he explains exactly who created the hippie movement and to what end. Exactly like that, in fact.
Great thing so many open source projects have willingly donated all their copyright ownership to the hands of this GNU organization, right? It will be closely guarded and protected, I'm sure.