The Future of Free Software

I think Richard Stormman is more than anything a product of his times and the circumstances that he found himself in. The whole industry has changed two or three times since Tormans day and he's still several generations back because you've got things changing now. I just I don't like non-copyleth licenses because I think that's where that's allowed us to get where we are today. If we all started going down the permissive license route I think we just end up in that sort of situation. It would be a shame that that gets lost and wrapped up in hatred of Starman and the you know annoyance with the FSF yeah.

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