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. > Licensing software under GPL and not charging for it (which are two separate > issues) is like giving a gift to the world . Indeed, it was a very kind thing to do. However, he was not the only one, and not even a first one. Such free projects as GNU, the X Window System, BSD (which, BTW, was a mature running OS without proprietary AT&T code by the time Linus started writing Linux) and countless others existed long before Linux. > I have been using this gift from > Linus on my machines for almost a decade. This gift is also one which can not > be taken back - this means that Linus has no power over his users except > being a bright developer who is the right person to run the Linux kernel > project. If only the world had a 100 more traitors like him!!! But we do. Vadik. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of troff, for it is subtle and quick to anger. ================================================================= 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]
