DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain 330
A Sage Developer writes "During a recent conference, Sage Days 6, Dan Bernstein (who has recently come under attack for his licensing policy) was among the invited speakers. During a panel discussion on the future of open source mathematics software, Bernstein declared that all of his past and future code would be released to the public domain. This includes qmail, primegen, and a number of other projects. Given the headache that incompatibility between GPLv3 and GPLv2 is causing developers, will we see more of this?"
Still a dick! (Score:2, Funny)
Quick! Somebody call the RIAA/MPAA Goons !! (Score:0, Funny)
Hint for yokels everywhere. Yes, he used to be.
Re:OK so when exactly? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A Linus supporter? (Score:1, Funny)
If there are real problems with hardware, and the manufacturer doesn't respond appropriately, then they will lose sales, won't they? Now, maybe in this case they didn't do the right thing but a single anecdote doesn't mean much. Most manufacturers care about their products and support them well. Why did RMS have to go mental about it? Why do people think they are better qualified to fix printer drivers than the original authors?
Sure there are cases where the support doesn't live up to the best ideals, but does that mean that everything must change to suit you? I say it doesn't.
Re:OK so when exactly? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In a word... (Score:3, Funny)
Fanatics of the Church of Stallman aren't capable of logic.
Besides, they think that "freedom" refers to objects and not to people.