23 May
2003
23 May
'03
04:10
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:42:48AM -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: : As I understand it GNU is the lead organization setting the standards for : Linux. Actually, Linus sets the standards for Linux. The FSF is an umbrella organization that authors can assign ownership of their GPL'd code to. The rationale being that the FSF as a whole will be in a better position to defend the GPL (when such a suit comes up) than individual authors. That's a very cursory explanation. For full details, I suggest people check out http://www.fsf.org/. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!