Over a year ago, I had a pretty interesting conversation with Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. In this conversation, I asked him among other things about applicability of free software terms to web applications; while he initially resisted the idea, I managed to convince him that it was an issue of GPL being unsuitable for web applications as it was. And over a year since then he made a public statement (also reported on Slashdot in a complete agreement with my proposition… except that he never gives me the credit for bringing the problem to his attention and logically proving his previous attitude wrong. My inquiries on the subject were left without a reply.
So long, and thanks for all the fish, Richard! It’s disgusting to see one of the greatest programmers of our time to become just another politician: incompetent enough so he cannot even use a browser, shady enough so he plagiarizes ideas and doesn’t even drop a word about where he got them. Oh, and read the conversation itself if you have the time: you will surely find many interesting statements made by RMS that would lead many companies withdraw any financial support of FSF should they learn about them…
