Re: Annoying GPL issues

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Mon, 31 May 1999 00:26:44 -0600


Ted said:
: > As such, the goals of the FSF are very different than the goals of the
: > Linux community, and the last thing we should want to do is give that
: > kind of power over to the FSF. Otherwise, some day we might see an
: > announcement in Slashdot...

Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> said:
: You seem to speak as some representant of the whole Linux community.
: Did I miss some election you won or perhaps what you call 'Linux
: community' is very different from what I understand from.

Gerard, you are pretty clearly not aware of all that Ted has done for
the community. Ted's been around since before Linux was a twinkle
in Linus' eye, has done a great deal of good work for the community,
and continues to do so. He certainly speaks for me, and given a bunch
of recent discussions at Linux Expo, that feeling is pretty widely held.

Ted is a very pleasant and reasonable guy, and his comments on this
topic were, as usual, accurate and right on target. If anyone speaks
for the community, Ted does. I wish that both I and you were held in
as high esteem as he is.

But isn't this a little off topic for the kernel list?

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