On Monday 15 July 2002 17.41, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Well, he has been quite effective in changing business plans in the past (think Apple, TrollTech, and perhaps Mozilla/Netscape). When he speaks, people do listen.
No, but when his minions flame people are subdued.
Cool - I get to be known by initials now? I've always wanted that. ;-)
In that paragraph there were FAQ, SuSE, RMS and dep. I just figured "Tim" would look out of place :)
Seriously, your point here over looks several things:
1.) Stallman issued the statement before the interview. 2.) I believe the interview you are referring to was the one I did on OfB.biz a few weeks ago at http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=125 .
Nope, I was talking about the "original" interview he did with dep. The quote from linuxandmain was <quote> In response to an inquiry from Linux and Main, Richard M. Stallman issued a statement and call to arms to Free Software developers. "'Licensing per seat' perverts the GNU+Linux system into something that respects your freedom as much as Windows," Stallman said </quote> I was just speculating on what that "inquiry" looked like. I'll bet it was something like "How do you feel about UnitedLinux going 'per-seat'".
However, Re: Per-seat, considering UnitedLinux will be what SLES is based on, and SLES already has per-seat licensing, one could fairly say at least UnitedLinux from SuSE and Caldera will have per-seat licensing. :-)
I believe SLES has per-seat support licenses, not per-seat installation licenses, but I see susers have already started to comment on this so I'll leave it to them.
Read over it before you attack my journalism, I assure you their was nothing tricky going on in the interview.
I was commenting on the standards on journalism in general, not on you in particular. //Anders