henne,
please kill aaron kulkis again
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Evens Garde
John E. Perry wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Druid
wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, John Andersen
wrote: (bla bla bla)
Just saying NO isn't going to work for ever. 5 more years of Leopard development and enhancement might squeeze Linux out, not because its better, but just because Leopard does not refuse to grow and play well with others.
Don't like the license? Don't use gpl software, then. It's that simple.
Isn't that exactly what I just said?
Why should an entire operating system dwindle to obscurity simply because it fails to recognize and deal with the fact that the boundary between hardware and software have permanently changed?
Uh, guys, a bit of history?
Unix -- bsd with it -- was headed down the tubes, unable to resist the Microsoft steamroller. No small part of that was that, while dozens of companies took bsd and made their own little mods (for which they charged tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars), no one gave anything away, either to each other, or to BSD. So, like all the rest of unix, bsd was stagnating while MS was buying people to improve their products.
Linux was the first OS to buck the downward spiral because everyone who modified it had to give their mods back to the community. So linux advanced by leaps and bounds.
Personally, I believe linux brought bsd back from death's door because this brilliantly successful example of the GPL at work prompted previously insular bsd programmers to break down the fences they'd built between one another. I've heard that bsd started from a better base, and I have no reason to doubt that, but linux has moved much faster until fairly recently, when bsd ideologs started cooperating more with one another.
BSD has still under the hijacking of three non-cooperating assholes... which is why none of the three has released a new kernel in a year beginning with 200.
Now what could possibly reverse the move of IBM, hp, Novell, etc., etc., to point of causing linux to "dwindle to obscurity"? One more absorption of bsd into a proprietary clod -- no matter how big the clod -- isn't going to change the trend of 25 years.
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