Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:05:59 -0500 | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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C S Hendrix wrote: > > In message <x4d85cp2e3.fsf@backbone.midwestcs.com>, Wayne Schlitt writes: > > > Interesting. Minix and Coherent were both that cheap and were both > > much better than Linux for several years. > > I personally switched to Linux initially because it didn't cost me > anything. I could only afford the $99 for Coherent, and barely that. > I knew immediately that Linux was better, and did things neither > Coherent or Minix could even early in the game. > > I have always believed in software freedom, long before hearing of > GNU or much about UNIX, so Linux really just proved to me that I > was right about something and that it could really be a great thing. > > > The technical advantages that they now have is due to their success > > and freedom. > > Yep. I'll note that most companies that do well, have a similar > model of development, they just keep it internal to them.
Though they don't get the benefit of hundreds (thousands?) of active developers and a few million users to bang on every development release....
By the way... how come many people still believe that no good support is available for Linux, when I have found that Linux support is better than any other (there are people who actually know how linux works, if it's broke it gets fixed......)
> > I think though, you have to realize that the free software world is > heavily subsidized by the non-free world. Even Richard Stallman > came from the military-industrial complex since most of what he > initially knew was created or funded by the same. > > Of course, a lot of the early efforts paid for by places like DARPA > were freely exchanged, and I think the move away from that is part > of what Stallman was motivated by. > > -- > Shannon - shendrix@widomaker.com - InfiNet? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade > of grass and not fall off the face of the earth." > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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