Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 23:45:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Annoying GPL issues |
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:59:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
The guy you qualify as ideolog has promoted things that _really_ exist and are used and useable nowadays. Could it be possible he just is a pragmatic ideolog ? ;-)
You mean things like the GNU Hurd? It wasn't all that long ago that Stallman was putting down Linux and promoting the Hurd as the true GNU operating system. These days of course, he's changed his tune and is going around demand that people call Linux "GNU/Linux".
So was probably Linus and perhaps you at the beginning of the Linux project. But time may have cleared part of your memory.
No, we wanted something which was useful. That's the difference. If you look at the history of Linux, you won't find any of the original, major developers saying, "we think intellectual property is evil incarnate and so we're going to work hard to put all propietary software companies out of business." Instead, it's people wanting a useful kernel and a useful operating system, which is a very different emphasis.
Linus has said that he doesn't like dictating to people which software license they should use; this is another demonstration of how most folks in the Linux community are not ideologues.
You seem to speak as some representant of the whole Linux community. Did I miss some election you won or perhaps what you call 'Linux community' is very different from what I understand from.
I don't pretend to speak for the Linux community, but having been at the Linux Expo with a *large* number of booths of hardware and software vendors, it's pretty clear to me that the Linux community is more than just free software fanatics. As such, I was merely stating my opinion that it might not be a wise chose to transfer copyright ownership of the Linux kernel to folks who very clearly have a single, very tightly focused agenda. It may coincide with the beliefs of some of the folks in the Linux community, but certainly not all of it.
- Ted
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