GPLv3 & GNU/Linux, or maybe Linux/GNU ???

[Jamon Camisso]

Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>> I don't have much to add, because I try to stay away from these 
>> ideological debates (do *you* want to get between Stallman and 
>> Torvalds?). In the end, as a small-time developer of a little project 
>> on the periphery of GNU/Linux (yes, I went there!), I am just happy 
>> these guys are tearing into each other about freedom. So long as the 
>> "tearing" remains professional and civil, good will come of it. The 
>> end result will likely be some amalgam of the two ideologies that will 
>> protect our freedom to tinker better than either alone could do.
> 
> Spoken like a true Hegelian, ;-)

Extend the apparently contradictory poles from Hegel into a Marxist dialectic, 
and we soon arrive back at the issue of communist patent-hating developers that 
appeared on this list a short while ago--having traversed nearly 200 years of 
Western philosophical thought in the process. Sweet!

Perhaps both camps need to recognize just how much their positions are defined 
by the Other ;) Linux is about philosophy, see?

Coming down on the side of Stallamn for a moment, if nothing else, our quick 
jaunt through history lends credence to Stallman's status as an important 
ideologue, since his philosophy and ethics mark him as a patent deontoligist 
(Kant is/was a well known deontologist).

Jamon
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