Discount Competence

I’m personally not a fan of the GNU GPL or of the FSF for that matter. I do support them in in a theoretical sense, but the FSF is famous for the same if-you’re-not-with-us-you’re-against-us mentality that the US has become so unpopular for lately (and in the past). This is nothing new. Eric S. Raymond and Bruce Perens founded the OSI and coined the term “Open Source” as a way to disassociate themselves and the movement from the idealistic views of the FSF and the Free Software movement.

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