The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License

Re:The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License by itafroma on Friday November 29, 2013 @10:49PM (#6822190)

Here's the announcement blog post for the containing project:

The license author goes into the reason for the license and his thoughts on RMS in a comment on that blog post:

> It’s not about hating free software. I’m a believer in that; I released my first game for free in 1982. Note that the github thing I put up is essentially totally free (something I would have been restricted from doing, by my employer, up to a year ago).

> I have a personal dislike for RMS and I think that his philosophy of economy is at best naïve and dangerously unworkable. 25 years ago he was exhorting me to quit my job in protest to support some of his politics and he wasn’t pleasant about it. Thus, ABRMS.

> If RMS really wants a miserable little 6502 assembler I can always amend the license. I’m not unreasonable. But he has to ask. :-)

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Re:The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License by lolwutf on Friday November 29, 2013 @11:00PM (#6822225)

Crazy? Probably yes.

But we all owe RMS because he serves as the radical counterbalance to closed source interests.

Maybe he's a little extreme, but he does well with advocating for that end of the FOSS spectrum.

We need a RMS, whether we like him or collectively agree with his opinions.

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Re:The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License by sjwright on Friday November 29, 2013 @11:05PM (#6822241)

And this license, which I still contend is self-evidently satirical, does nothing to hinder RMS from his views. If anything, it helps maintains RMS' mantle within the software licensing zeitgeist. After all, we're talking about it now.

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Re:The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License by lolwutf on Saturday November 30, 2013 @01:42AM (#6822507)

Eh, it stands that it's still kinda lame to skewer the guy.

But, if you subscribe to the 'any press is good press' mentality, I guess it's a win...

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Re:The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License by joshguthrie on Saturday November 30, 2013 @08:23AM (#6823075)

_Richard Stallman? Richard Stallman! Why's he running dad?

_Because we have to hate him.

_He didn't do anything wrong.

_Because he's the hero Open Source Software deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hate him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. RMS.

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