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Re: Re: Viability of Linux companies



On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:33:00AM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> True. For some reason, it appears fashionable for BSD people to bash
> Linux the way Linux people bash Windows.

Bit of education in order:

BSD is both a license and an OS
Linux just an OS
GPL is just a license and backed by an organization that's ten times as
vehement in pushing it than I am in bashing it.

I don't bash Linux. I bash GPL. And sorry, I don't agree with the
term GNU/Linux, nor is Linux == GPL.

I think some parts of Linux are great - but I hate to see all the energy
going in a direction that's not useful to > 95% of the computing population
and never will be.

I'm not here to "convert" linux people to bsd. I'd like to see Linux
people writing programs using a non-GPL license, so that some company
will have an incentive in productizing it. Apparently, you guys don't
care about it, since it doesn't change anything for you.

Will you please leave me alone now ?

> 
> 
> > Not that I go out of my way to hunt them out: good examples can be
> > found in the archives of this list itself.
> 
> Which *is* what bothers me. Rather than being constructive and offering
> solutions and suggestions, all one gets is negativity and
> Linux/GPL/community bashing.
> 

Ever read LIP ? BTW, my answers come for free :)

	-Arun