[ILUG] RMS: KDE in violation of GPL

[Twomey_Mark at emc.com]

different people have different values.

GPL is ignored buy the business community because it's very ambiguous in
places. Who owns what, when can they defend their copyright and who decides
when the GPL has been violated. That last point seems to always come down to
RMS's good graces.

GPL in principal does not lend itself to profit from code, though I'm not a
programmer I don't believe in the "developer as a starving artist" mentality
that the FSF/RMS & GPL [They really are all one and the same if you think
about it], imply with the license and the mentality. It's not the "heart" of
the GPL I have a problem with, it's the conscious brain behind it. 

Community spirit, fair play in business & making money [But not obscene
amounts of money], is one thing. Buying into the cult of RMS's personality
symbolised by his biased application of the GPL is another. Troll tech bent
over backwards to suit the whims of the Linux community, but of course to
RMS that was not good enough, he had to climb up on his soapbox and denounce
the intellectually unclean masses of KDE. How very nice of him to grant
forgiveness to them. How far did he have to dip into his ego to write those
words.

And to prove that I'm not as full of shit as this email may imply, as I some
FSF stuff at work by my own choice, at the next big Linux event I intend to
cut the FSF a check to what I believe is the fair value of the software and
post it to the them.
I refuse to allow myself beholden to a self proclaimed "martyr".
 
Mark.