From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 26 Jan 2026 02:38:18 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:08:50 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/25/2026 10:06 AM, Stallman Lackey Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud)   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> the great Dr. Richard M. Stallman   
   >>   
   >> He's NOT great, and he's NOT a Doctor.   
   >   
   > He's definitely not a doctor, but he did get an honourary doctorate. As   
   > for him being great or not, I will submit a question: would the world of   
   > technology naturally gravitate toward producing open-source software had   
   > it not been for Richard Stallman. There is reason to believe that   
   > Shareware would have existed even if GNU hadn't, but I doubt that would   
   > have resulted in a free operating system with its free set of   
   > applications, and the dogma that software should strive to open up its   
   > code.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar   
      
   In Stallman's world permissive licenses would not exit. Would Linux have   
   come about under a Zero-Clause BSD licese or did it need Rabbi Stallman   
   and his moral legalisms?   
      
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