[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?
From: |
Matthew Flaschen |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:11:25 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) |
Kevin M. Dean wrote:
> Linus has an ego?
Everyone has an ego, thank god. I don't think Linus's is huge,
/despite/ having a kernel (and by semi-accidental extension, an entire
OS) named after him (which wasn't originally his idea, though he acquiesced)
> Hrm. We'll, it's a good thing our figurehead, Richard
> Stallman isn't a nutcase.
He's definitely a bit extreme sometimes, and I don't agree with him on
everything, but I respect him a lot.
> As to being apolitical, it's not possible. Inaction causes ripples just
> as great a actions. He might go on saying he's against it, but at the
> end of the day, he does nothing but make the most popular Free Software
> kernel better.
I do appreciate very much his (and others') work on the kernel, which
has helped realize a quality free OS. However (I'm not sure if this is
your point), not caring about free software does somewhat support the
proprietary status quo.
> I don't agree with Richard Stallman about everything, and there are
> Linux kernel developers who don't care what Linus thinks. Linux is Free
> Software, even if it wasn't created to be. Neither was the Solaris
> kernel, or Java.
Yes, and Open Source software. Linus happens not to agree ("Well, you
do have to realize that Linux has never been an FSF project, and
in fact has never even been a "Free Software" project.")
> As to why he began writing the kernel in the first place, or how well it
> worked out for him... Well, Eben Moglen has made a nice profit out of
> his name.
Has he really, compared to most lawyers? I think both of them started
for non-financial reasons (again, maybe that's your point; it's late).
> I don't think going somethign for fame, or status, or money or
> some really cute girl are bad things. It's when you begin walking over
> and taking advantage of people that the pursuit of those things becomes
> a problem.
Exactly, which is why I'm glad to give money to free software developers.
> Anyway, it's the voice of the million little people that matter more
> than the shouts of one man.
Agreed.
Matt Flaschen
- [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Guy Johnston, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Declan Naughton, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Guy Johnston, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Dave Crossland, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Josh Martens, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?,
Matthew Flaschen <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, CK Raju, Thrissur, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, CK Raju, Thrissur, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/25
- [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense, Tin Tin, 2007/03/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense, Brian Brazil, 2007/03/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] [Patch] kPovModeler useless in gNewSense, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/25