[Gllug] Questionnaire - "The motivations of developers who participate in OS projects"

salsaman at xs4all.nl salsaman at xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 1 13:32:02 UTC 2011


On Fri, July 1, 2011 14:24, Nix wrote:
> On 1 Jul 2011, salsaman at xs4all.nl verbalised:
>
>> On Fri, July 1, 2011 12:09, Nix wrote:
>>> RMS has already launched this rocket. You don't need to keep annoying
>>> the poor sod.
>>
>> Once RMS has corrected you *in person*, you tend never to make the
>> mistake
>> again. At least that is true in my case :-P
>
> RMS was... less than sensible here, demanding controls on how the
> academic's results were used if *any* data from *any* Emacs developers
> was used in the project. Some other Emacs developers disagreed, rather
> vehemently, the XEmacs developers helped out by pointing out just how
> unlikely a demand from a survey participant to control the resulting
> study was to be accepted, and the inevitable flamewar started.
>
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Just to clarify, I was talking about RMS definition of Free Software vs.
Open Source Software.

I would agree, in the situation you refer to RMS overstepped the mark, but
then he is not a person known for either diplomacy or pragmatism.

Salsaman.



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