Ubuntu users: Stallman or Torvalds?

[glotz]

Hello. This thread is to poll Ubuntu users who they like more of the two. Feel free to tell us why you voted as you did. If you don't use Ubuntu, please refrain from voting. Also, if you're unfamiliar with the chaps, simply don't vote.

If you're unfamiliar with these characters, you really should spend the time to get to know them. You wouldn't be using GNU/Linux without them. Here are the Wikipedia entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

For privacy reasons, I'm making the choices hidden.

[Brunellus]

yet more useless "debate."

Linux is impossible with out RMS (love him or hate him). RMS/GNU would still be obscure and irrelevant without the Linux kernel. They depend on and deserve on another.

[glotz]

Thanks for your useless opinion!

I'm quite aware of the facts you refer to. Yet they do represent different thinking models about the GNU/Linux goals.

[Stone123]

voted Linus . Stalman should resigne from not doing anything lately .

[Brunellus]

The FSF and stallman will continue to exist. If they push "too hard," they will simple fade back into irrelevance and sit there for another twenty or so years. The marketplace ultimately will determine whose licensing rules will prevail.

[Lord Illidan]

I kinda prefer Torvalds.

1. He seems more practical than Stallman...who is very idealistic.

He keeps a low profile..which I like.

[BrokeBody]

Even when RMS dies, generaly, nothing bad will happen to Linux.

Linus Torvalds

[Bezmotivnik]

I kinda prefer Torvalds.

1. He seems more practical than Stallman...who is very idealistic.

"Idealistic"=doctrinaire loudmouth.

[kripkenstein]

I wonder if, on Microsoft boards, they have a poll choosing between Gates and Ballmer.

[mostwanted]

Linux is very fun and all, but I don't like the fact that he feels a need to bash Gnome on every occation. Also, a lack of idealism isn't preferable. Linus sometimes seems to a bit too "practical".

RMS is extreme, but he fights for our freedom, not just for the odd alternative operating system. This whole movement is the result of his crazy ideas. Back in the eighties nearly everyone considered him mad, now less people do so as they have experienced the greatness of free software. He has won quite a lot of battles in all those years, and that's why he's not going to soften up any time soon.