Comments on: FSF launches a denial-of-service attack on Apple's Genius Bars

The Free Software Foundation is making itself irrelevant...again, this time by fighting against Genius Bars everywhere.

[chlimouj]

Everything on the Internet is based on PC software. Open source software IS what's important because, when all else fails, if you have open source software you can do anything you want. If you want total control of your email, you can run your own mail server. As long as we have open source software, we HAVE web freedom.

[zato_3]

I don't ever remember the FSF protesting against Microsoft. Why is that, FSF?

[odubtaig]

Because you have Alzheimer's? Because you've never looked properly at their website?

[carloskipr]

This is incredible! People have a choice when purchasing music, and they have chosen iTunes as their main source of digital music downloads. It is people who choose it. No body is forcing them to choose. I could go and purchase from many other services, but I choose iTunes. I can transfer the songs to my several iPods, my iPhone, and I can even burn a CD five times. After I burn the the CD, I can actually import it back into the iTunes library without DRM. Please focus your attention on issues that really matter. What a waste of time!

[odubtaig]

Why have you completely overlooked the AGPL in your link to an article which completely ignores the existence of the AGPL and why it was made separate from the GPL?

Yes, GPLv3 was 'lobotomised' at the insistence of a great many F/OSS people and the intention of the FSF was to create a license people would use. They found that putting those clauses in would alienate a lot of people so they kept the Affero license separate. Like it or not the creation of GPLv3 was about creating as user-freedom reinforcing a license as possible while ensuring it would be used by more than two dogs and a man. The Affero license has the most contentious part reinserted for those who are more in favour of it.

As a legal person for a F/OSS company, I would have thought you would have payed just a little bit more attention to the process of the next revision of the license your company uses.

[Trane Francks]

As one who has financially contributed to the FSF in the past, I can only say that I would expect them to not infringe on the rights of paying customers to get across their points to Apple. Since they're choosing that route, the FSF won't see any further support from me.

(Posted from a MacBook)