On Saturday 20 May 2006 04:15, Arun K. Khan wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvald s/
Linus isn't really the father of the open source movement. RMS has a lions share to say the least :)
On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:21, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 04:15, Arun K. Khan wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorva ld s/
Linus isn't really the father of the open source movement. RMS has a lions share to say the least :)
Yeah I kinda thought that that interview would piss off FSF. Although it IS kinda annoying how RMS is completely ignored. (I am NOT an RMS fan!)
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On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 19:51 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 04:15, Arun K. Khan wrote:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvald s/
Linus isn't really the father of the open source movement. RMS has a lions share to say the least :)
Although CNN, in the interview, gives credit to Linus re: Open source movement; Linus himself does not make any claim. Au contraire, he rightly points out FOSS existed before Linux.
IMO Linux, by using the GNU utilities, provided the exposure to FSF and brought to it the attention of a much larger audience than the uber geeks.
-- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage. -- John Updike, "Couples"
On Saturday 20 May 2006 18:42, Arun K. Khan wrote:
IMO Linux, by using the GNU utilities, provided the exposure to FSF and brought to it the attention of a much larger audience than the uber geeks.
Were there any other more complete set of "Free" ( Open Source ) utilities that Linus could've used instead of GNU?
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 01:06 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 18:42, Arun K. Khan wrote:
IMO Linux, by using the GNU utilities, provided the exposure to FSF and brought to it the attention of a much larger audience than the uber geeks.
Were there any other more complete set of "Free" ( Open Source ) utilities that Linus could've used instead of GNU?
I am referring to the exposure of the GNU tools to a wide computer user audience.
No doubt, GNU tool set existed circa 1984/85 but there was no stable GNU/OS (Mach kernel) for the junta to install and use. The Linux kernel along with the GNU tool set (along with other open source software) provided the stable platform - the combo was a perfect fit.
Folks had ported the tools to the various commercial Unices but such systems were way too expensive for the average Joe/Jane. Even today, GNU/HURD is not ready for deployment.
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