------ On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:30:37 +0800 Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following:
-> ->It being Halloween day and all, I decided to read through the ->infamous ->"Halloween Documents" again, that first came up three years ago ->today. ->Found an interesting note about why BSD doesn't seem to have been as ->successful as Linux, from Microsoft's own analysis. One of the ->points ->raised is that one of the GPL and the "bazaar mode" of Linux's ->development contributed to its success. true! halloween documents + the cathedral and the bazaar were good bedtime reads during this halloween break (tigil muna ako sa dylan thomas collection). 3rd year of propaganda sh*ts from ms (or "one of the ms executives" to be precise). ->BSD development generally proceeded in a closed, cathedral-style ->development metaphor, so while the codebase was given under an even ->more ->liberal license than Linux, that encouraged people to make more ->forks as ->opposed to contributing to the codebase that already existed. The ->excessive liberality of the BSD licensing ensured that people could ->hijack the code and use it for their own purposes at the expense of ->the ->whole BSD community. Thus we have MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, ->NetBSD, ->etc. Because Linux used the GPL, and Linus had been very liberal in ->opening up the development of the kernel, these things never ->happened in ->Linux land. Nobody can create a forked proprietary non-free version ->of Linux the way Apple created MacOS X out of BSD, without getting ->sued ->for GPL violation. -> ->Apparently Microsoft took this analysis to heart when they began ->attacking the GPL in recent days. and after all these, they still have the guts to embrace some of the *BSD technologies. it's like stealing idea from others, pretend it to be your original- and sell it in lock-stock-and-barell stylee! -> ->Interestingly enough, Windows XP's launch party begins later. Why ->is it ->that a lot of significant things happen at Microsoft during ->Halloween? hehehe, methinks it's because mr.gates looked like the jack-o-lantern, the smashed pumpkinhead! =) btw, sino po me copy ng "anti-trust" movie? pwede po ma-hiram? =) tenks! percy _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
