[pronoiac]

Sweet fucking Jesus, do we need to talk about the GPL here? It's an utter derail here, and the way comments are ranked here means that the top pages of this thread are going to be the same hashing out of pros and cons and it's incredibly tedious.

[stonogo]

Since the only reason anyone ever listens to anything Stallman says is the GPL, it's on-topic.

[pronoiac]

It's a tribal thing; people have already made their minds up about it, and we're just going to spout talking points at each other.

Instead of talking about the post, we're doing the lazy "and what's up with the GPL?" comedy bit.

[xtracto]

These discussions remind me of the "old days" of /. Discussing the GPL is like discussing Catholicism, points of view are strongly rooted in ideology, these type of discussions are never constructive.

The only difference for me, is that at the time (when I participated in these on /.) I was young, full of energy to spend on idealisms, and thought everything was black or white. Nowadays, I just chuckle reading how people get their panties in a bunch (for some reason, I like this English phrase) instead of using the tools that comply with whatever license they like.