Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Aug 2005 19:41 UTC
GNU, GPL, Open Source Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue - that of freedom to distribute and change software.
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RE[2]: this isn't freedom...
by on Sat 27th Aug 2005 20:26 UTC in reply to "RE: this isn't freedom..."

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But in fairness, the second author didn't have to write the product from the ground up; they're working off the first programmer's product.

Yeah, it's not totally free for them, but I think that's the way the argument goes.

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