On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 16:50, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Quoth Mark Veltzer on Wed, Jan 15, 2003: > > As for Linus: I do not consider a person who had the nerve to write an > > operating system from scratch and license it under the GPL a traitor. A hero > > hits much closer to home. > > Come on. Writing Linux is not a political issue. He may be a > good programmer, a charismatic leader, a competent manager, a > successful PR person, whatever, but calling him a hero seems to > be an overshoot.
I think anyone who's read Linus biography would agree with you that if there is one thing that Linus would not like to deal with in it is politics. But what has being a politrok has anything to do with being a hero? Linus is a hero to me because he was able to *give up control* of something he created. Deny power. A lot of people in the world cannot do that even if it's bloody obvious it will benefit them much more then trying to hold control. Men are control freaks - we love to control other people. Power turns us on. This isn't new - that one of the basic themes of the Lord of the Ring, for example and that story is 30 years old. Linus somehow manages to not be tempted by power. For me, it's enough to consider him a hero. Eze Hagibor? Ha kovesh et Yitzro... :-) My 2cs, Gilad. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
