[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[Robert Adkins]

bob dion wrote:
> Wolfger wrote:
>   
>> On 1/9/07, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Wolfger a ecrit:
>>>       
>>>> I once read the biography of Stallman, and I had a huge amount
>>>> of respect for him in the beginning, but by the end of it (and in reading
>>>> most of the things he's said publicly in the last few years) I could only
>>>> think of him as a raving lunatic.
>>>>         
>>> Principled people like Stallman are the ones who change things.
>>> Those who simply accept "the way things work" never change anything.
>>>       
>> Neither do those who refuse to make compromises. That is Stallman's
>> achilles heel. Refusal to compromise just leads to stalling all
>> progress, and irritating a lot of those who would otherwise be your
>> supporters.
>>
>>
>>     
> If RMS never compromises how did we get the LGPL? That was a compromise 
> on Stallman's part.
    If someone wanted to write the LGPL, would they have really needed 
his blessing?

    -Rob