On 25-Oct-06, at 9:08 PM, jtd wrote:
the case of Linus he does not want to be poltical and resents the kernel development being made a political battle ground (IMO primarily because companies likely to be affected are substantial resource contributors)
and do you have anything to substantiate this? Is this the case also with apache, subversion, postgresql, sqlite, python, php, perl, django ... Or is it that there are also sensible non-fanatics in the foss world - who are also doing most of the development