Our recent post, The Insanity of the Richard Stallman Lifestyle and the Psychology Behind It, has generated quite a bit of discussion on LowEndTalk, as well as a comment here on LowEndTalk. Calvyn Lee asked: "Do you think his extreme habits are necessary to truly live out the free software philosophy, or could someone be just as committed without going to such lengths?" Here's my take.
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The GNU Public License was once extremely popular in the FOSS world. But over recent years, its popularity has rapidly faded and the nails in its coffin are really starting to stack up. Most recently, Ubuntu has announced they're swapping out coreutils for an Apache-licensed alternative.
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The GNU GPL, BSD license, MIT...those are so last century. Today we have many other cool licenses to use and you should definitely switch all your code to one of these.
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