Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. | Date | 21 Sep 1998 18:09:58 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0zL8XQ-000aQwC@the-village.bc.nu> By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > The users win if Unix wins. If this means that some vendors release > > proprietary drivers for Linux and end up eating support costs for the > > rest of their life, it's a lot better than if those vendors encourage > > their clients to use Windows NT, because it's supported. > > If your interest is "trash microsoft" then maybe. If your interest is creating > a world with a truely free software base its a different matter >
Yes, although you have to win your battles before you can win the war. I suspect that *at the moment*, the biggest battle is closed standards (spearheaded by Micro$oft) versus open standards (which Unix is slowly migrating towards.) Open standards is a (necessary but not sufficient) precondition for free software, and the more power M$ gets the more in danger they are (look at I2O, for example -- the I2O consortium is widely claimed to be effectively controlled by Intel and Microsoft, although I have no idea to what extent that really is.)
If closed standards prevail, free software is history.
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