On Monday 07 June 2010 02:43:17 you wrote:
Invalid.
All free operating systems follow the bazaar model. Only linux became
mainstream and stayed free. Mach+BSD became mainstream in their OSX avatar
but it is non-free:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
Did you read the links I posted ? Here is a quote in one of them from linus
himself:
"""
But for a project I actually care about, I would never choose the BSD
license. The license doesn't encode my fundamental beliefs of 'fairness'.
I think the BSD license encourages a 'everybody for himself' mentality,
and doesn't encourage people to work together, and to merge."
"Let me put this in source management terms, since I've also been
working on a source control management project for the last few years:
the BSD license encourages 'branching', but the fact is, branching is not
really all that interesting. What's interesting is 'merging': the
branching is just a largely irrelevant prerequisite to be able to merge.
"The GPLv2 encourages *merging*. Again, the right to 'branch' needs to
be there in order for merges to be possible, but the right to branch is
actually much less important than the right to 'merge'."
"""
Do you really want to disagree with linus about his choice of license for
his own OS ? He has said plenty of times (read the links I posted) that
choosing the GPLv2 license was the best thing he did for linux !! ...and
you want to deny it's effect ? ...if you do, you are just being
unreasonably stubborn, pretty much like the character this thread talks
about.
Stallman is a genius - no doubt about it. But he is incapable of
working collaboratively with others - which linus does, and guido and a
whole lot of other bdfls. If you want to learn about how to talk about
freedom - listen to RMS. If you want to learn how to write open source
software and sustain it - listen to linus.
True as it maybe, it is not rms's genius, but his stubbornness to not
confirm and take the easy path, as most others would've, that laid the
foundations of the larger movement that we know as FOSS today.
Like I said in one of my other posts in this thread, talking about freedom
and writing open source software are not mutually exclusive !
Linus, irrespective of what you want to imagine, cares deeply about
freedom too (read the links), he just prefers to be pragmatic about it.