Behind the Doors of the Free Software Foundation 144
Linux.com has an interesting look at the inner workings of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). "The purpose of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is probably obvious from its name -- but what does promoting free software mean in terms of everyday activity? Examining the roles of the organization shows how complex the FSF's advocacy role has become. It also reveals the range of services available to the free software community, and helps to explain how such a small group has had such a major influence on computer technology. As a 501(c)3 charity in the United States, the FSF is run by a board of directors. The current board includes FSF founder and president Richard M. Stallman and long-term member Henry Poole, but, in the last few years, new faces have appeared on the board."
Re:Stallman pushed to the sidelines (Score:5, Informative)
While I believe it would be great for people to contribute to Free Software by buying a copy of Free as in Freedom from Amazon I would like to also point out (in a spirit that I hope RMS will appreciate) that you can read it online for free as well here [oreilly.com].
As far as I'm concerned, pay or not, the more people that read it the better.
Re:Stallman pushed to the sidelines (Score:5, Informative)
So you are arguing that reproducing is on par, talent-wise, with writing Emacs?
If that were true, we'd have a lot more text editors to choose from.
Re:Not this old debate again. (Score:3, Informative)
Because people said "why work on DirectX? The Cedega guys promised they'd give us the code". Remember that Cedega weren't the ONLY people who knew how to implement DirectX under wine, but they cheated on WINE so that NOBODY worked on it and they'd be ahead of WINE.
Only after the WINE team reacted, changed the license to GPL (or LGPL in case of winelib) and began to work, WINE recovered.
Re:Thanks! (Score:2, Informative)