[Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux [was] Google drops Windows in their workplace
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Manokaran K)
- Date: Sun Jun 6 11:36:40 2010
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:59 PM, narendra sisodiya <
narendra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Person who put tarch-light at starting point and visioned the things is
more important the followers and implementors. For the very same reason,
person who make a open standard specification is more important then open
source coder. For the very same reason, CEO who vision a technology is more
important then his employee. We put huge credit to Gandhi for Freedom Fight
but it doesn't exclude contribution to other.
Finally, we have Linus's Kernel with such a wide spread, just because
of GPL license. RMS was the one who wrote it and put some rule which define
software freedom. He RMS was not there, then there was no license. without
Public license, Linux will be another Window.
IMO, the light/vision/implementations are more important than the person
from whose mind these things originate. Its understandable if these
visionaries fight/argue over bragging rights. But for proxies to indulge in
this is confounding!
Lets just raise a toast to the chef/chefs and enjoy the pudding :-)
Also, IMO, there is no truth in arguments that claim that if person X did
not invent implement Y then the course of histroy would've changed. It is
the collective thought of the times that propel certain ideas to the
forefront. That people are associated with them is just a matter of detail.
Thats why we see many instances of simultaneous discoveries in many fields.
If Newton did not invent Calculus (if at all he did) Leibnitz was ready with
it. The only part history played here was to give Newton all the credit
discounting all the prior art of the Leibnitz, the orientals, hindus and the
arabs. And if Einstein did not give us the theory of relativity, Lorentz
would've done it.
To us, it does not matter. Its calculus and relativity that are more
important.
regds,
mano
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