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 :)
RMS was NEVER associated with the Open Source movement. He is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and none of these are part of the Open Source movement. Atleast not according to RMS. (And I am a RMS fan.)
Debarshi
On 5/21/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
RMS was NEVER associated with the Open Source movement. He is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and none of these are part of the Open Source movement. Atleast not according to RMS. (And I am a RMS fan.)
Debarshi
Think OpenSource and GNU without Linux.
Don't separate the things - Why one should envy or be jelous to any of our community? And by hating each other - only M$ is gaining and laughing at us. I am wondering why people starting GNOME v/s KDE and Linux v/s GNU/Linux wars?
Anyone attended Andrew F. Cowie's talk "Inside/Outsie" at Foss.in/2005? He/she should understand this...
On 5/21/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
RMS was NEVER associated with the Open Source movement. He is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and none of these are part of the Open Source movement. Atleast not according to RMS. (And I am a RMS fan.)
Well, as I see it, Open Source movement is essentially the Free Software movement with an aspect which deals with commercial use of "Free" software. According to Bruce Perens, the only difference that RMS and he have is that RMS is a bit "affraid" of the commercialization of free software. Other than that there are no differences between them. Remember, Open Source was coined only to make the idea of Free Software palatable to corporates. As I see it, the Open Source movement couldn't have existed without the Free Software movement started by RMS. Hence, directly or indirectly you have to credit RMS. There is no escaping that ;-)
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