Love me or hate me, this is my opinion. Its not a flame piece nor is it insulting. Lets be gentleman and or ladies here. Does the FSF and Richard Stallman deserve as much attention as they get.
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" While many see me as attacking Richards pride and joy and as hating
free software and the FSF I dont. I disagree with his views and his
conclusion on why Linux needs to be called GNU/Linux and I think he
goes overboard, I dont hate the guy. I look at software as a tool. I
use the tools that work best for me. Sometimes that tool may be an
open source solution, sometimes its a proprietary solution and
sometimes its a proprietary solution and open source solution in a
mixed environment. I disagree that binary blobs are bad. I buy a
piece of hardware I want it to work. If it doesnt work I find a
solution that does work. We have to respect proprietary
software/hardware vendors rights. If they dont want to open source
their drivers or software products but are willing to provide the blobs
and support why not use em?
Richards stance is everything needs to be free, well sorry. In the
real world we live in it doesnt work that way. You have to have give
and take, you have to reach a healthy compromise. Some people blame
the lack of interest as the main failing point for Hurd and gNewSense.
Its not, the failures of these systems rest solely on Richard and the
FSF. By not having that give and take the systems failed. Richard
failed. Both systems, on my hardware anyway, failed miserably. By not
having that compromise the FSF will become obsolete. While the rest of
the world is moving on and different Linux and BSD distributors are
working together with hardware manufacturers and software vendors to
get their hardware and software certified with these distributors the
FSF and their systems are becoming more obsolete everyday."