Messages in this thread | | | From | rjd@xyzzy ... | Subject | Re: Linux stifles innovation... | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:10:52 +0000 (GMT) |
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Dennis wrote: ... > objective, arent we? Nope. Are you claiming to be?
> For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps ... Rant deleted
I had a problem with eepro100. It was fixed same night cause I had the source. Don't even try to compare with MickyS**t.
> The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to > bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about > "sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source" solutions even > when they are wholly inferior. You're only hurting yourselves in the long > run. In that respect MS is correct, because those with the dollars to > innovate will stay away.
When companys with less than a dozen people think it's worth while paying someone like me to develop code exclusivly for Linux we've got to have a chance. Source to binary ratio is probably 70/30 mainly because of code tied up in previous companys but they are trying.
The project they're funding now is more like 90% GPL. Of course I could be producing crap code. 20 years kernel hacking and a cybernetics degree can't mean as much as being an MSCE.
ps. This is definately a message from home and a bottom of a glass of whisky. -- Bob Dunlop rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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