On 15-Aug-06, at 4:52 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
true - i started using linux in 1996, and the first time i heard
about RMS was around 2002. And so far i havent read a single thing he
has written - although i have read almost everything ESR has written.
Not even the GNU GPL? So you know about 'The Cathedral and The
Bazaar', while not having read the GNU GPL? I do not have words to
describe this.
no, i havent read the GPL. The first software i released was on CPAN
- for license i just put 'same as perl'. Later, for my sf projects i
chose GPL because it was the first choice on the sf list. Nowadays, i
find that i use apache, postgres, subversion, python and django -
none of them released under GPL. I am leaning to the view that most
people who write FOSS code are too busy to bother themselves with the
complexities and nit picking of the GPL and prefer a less obtrusive
license which allows them to concentrate on what they do best -
producing code. So I will probably be shifting my projects to a BSD
style license in the near future.
it's about the whole society. No matter how many ``Linux'' users are
there in this world or how many companies support ``Open
Source'', the
whole Free Software revolution will remain a failure as long as we
don't understand what Freedom is.
i beg to differ - it will remain a failure in India at least until
people stopped sounding off and started writing code
Write code for Microsoft or Apple?
a suprising amount of foss code *is* written for those platforms -
see the top 20 on sourceforge
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