I'm shure that history is mainly determined by economics.
Even if the economics behind it are often not obvious.
I'd say there are a lot of other factors. This is a point where many
sociologists differ. Some will tell you economy is the most important
reason while others will tell
All of the guts of the OS are contrary to the thing that the FSF
has been working toward.
When you go into the shell and you type `ls', you are using GNU utilities
to do the job. Granted, you may not consider them the `guts' of the OS,
but now consider...
When any program calls printf,
I like the acronym expansion of GNU/Linux:
GNU's Not Unix/Linux
But wait, don't forget what Linux stands for:
Linux Is Not UniX.
So now we've got two things that are not Unix?
Heh. ;)
Alejo.
http://bachue.com/alejo
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more
However, Eric and the Open Source movement deliberately avoid the
issues that I focus on most: issues of principle. They do not say
that we deserve freedom to share and change software,
That would be incorrect, at least from my vantage point. A core principle
In your zeal to distance your doctrinal purity from the OSI's
filthy but effective pragmatism, you are mainly succeeding in
marginalizing both the FSF and yourself. If you keep this up,
you're going to end up ranting to an audience of one, in the mirror.
I believe more
I got to thinking some about the license how-to thing. I *do* believe
that a guide to selecting licenses *would* be useful.
I was planning on writing that document. The following is the table of
contents I thought it should have, as I wrote it two days ago:
1 Introduction
Just
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