On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:03, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:12:27 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Yes. It's the Linux developers who are zealous.
Pray tell me why using the GPL makes a developer zealous.
I didn't say that. I said the Linux developers are zealous in their attitude toward free software. It's an opinion. You don't have to agree. But their attitude towards hardware and software vendors that don't share their philosophy of free software is religious and generally counterproductive. And it's more than a little ironic that huge, extremely profitable companies can see immense bottom-line benefits from using Linux (I'm not talking about Novell now) without having to redistribute the software and systems they build and deploy on Linux while a handful of Linux kernel developers make life difficult for very many end users and hinder wider adoption of Linux by excluding non-GPL and binary-only drivers from distributions.
Philipp
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