[Fsfe-uk] Dave Winer

[Alex Hudson]

I suppose people will have seen this from NTK already, but Dave Winer
(of Userland fame) has a rant on his blog about the recent award RMS
picked up. Quoth he;

"Do you work really hard to make good software? I do it every day. Does
Stallman push the envelope? I haven't seen any evidence of that. Imho,
the economy is still rewarding the wrong people. At one time if you
pushed for excellence in software, you could build a nice business. I
still believe that. But it's disheartening to see so much money go to
support Stallman's theories. I believe this works against software
breakthroughs, even software progress.

"Something to think about. Would the $830K have been better used to
support SourceForge?"

Kind of topical, kind of funny, yet extremely sad.

Alex.

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