I agree about the eye rolling absurdity there. But I also suspect stuff like the opening up of various bits of RaspberryPi firmware blobs wouldn’t have happened without people who share his philosophy there. Same with hardware (and software) like Bunnie Huangs Precursor, a piece of as close as practically fully upon source hardware, where the cpu is implemented as an open source FPGA, and the Xous OS for it is written ground up in Rust. That’s a hell of a complex project, and a fascinating , that in my opinion would probably never have been worth anyones time to even start on, if they didn’t share (and possibly exceed) some of Stallman’s philosophical absurdity.
Like I said, I acknowledge the “ extreme fringe wing nut GPL virality advocating loudmouths” and appreciate their existence, if only as a balance to the “make Larry Ellison infinitely rich and powerful” kind of alternatives.
Like I said, I acknowledge the “ extreme fringe wing nut GPL virality advocating loudmouths” and appreciate their existence, if only as a balance to the “make Larry Ellison infinitely rich and powerful” kind of alternatives.