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At Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins.
A little over a month ago, Torvalds stepped back from running the Linux development community. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds said, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately."
That time is over. Torvalds is back.
He's a quick study if it only took him a month to learn how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.
See also: Linus Torvalds is back at Linux while GNU's Stallman unveils a "kindness" policy
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:34AM
-ings.
That they share all the same approved licenses does not make them the same thing.
Someone at Advogato described them as "fellow travellers", a Communist term for two nations that share the same goals but are in conflict with each other, as when China invaded Vietnam in 1975. Someone at Kuro5hin cleared up my confusion between the two by pointing out that "Open Source is the enemy", in response to which I decided I was a Free Software advocate, however I am willing to participate in Open Source and when doing so I respect the decision of the project's founders.
I discussed this with Richard himself a while back. My take was that "It's not the choice of licenses but the reason for which the licenses are chosen". His reply was "That is correct".
In a press interview some years before I mentioned that to Richard, he said "Open Source is for efficiency; Free Software aims to build a community".
He didn't come right out and say so, but that suggests that Richard regards Free Software as having a higher purpose than the software itself. That he really does feel that way is suggested by what he chooses to post on his personal website [stallman.org].
I'm not able to turn up the actual lists posts just now, but when some clueless newbie suggested that the kernel was Free Software, Linus tore him a new asshole.
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