Posted on 03/04/2006 4:01:17 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
Linus Torvalds is famous for constantly disagreeing with Stallman over these zealot matters. His software is GPL. Kinda blows your "GPL=zealot" theory away.
and a majority of that code having it's copyright transfered to Stallman's organization the FSF
Now that one I haven't heard. Source, please?
Linux was but a cheap clone of Unix
Actually, it was a Minix clone.
from a foreigner
Them damn foreigners, always ruining things for us pure-blood Americans.
it was it's release under Stallman's GPL that has given it it's rise above BSD.
True, in conjunction with BSD being held back by a baseless lawsuit. Linux was already popular by the time BSD was cleared. The idea of suing over free software instead of competing (hello, SCO) made BSD miss its window of opportunity.
"OSS =/= free" == "OSS != free"
He's just trying to type longhand.
bump
I thought he might be trying to use some programming construct, but in over 20 years of programming in a lot of different languages I've never seen that.
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