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Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes: > > My message was that instead of sitting around copying other people's > programs, it would be far more interesting if the open source community > came up with original works on their own. That's how you win. It's a > lot more work but when you win, you really win. In the copying model, > you are always playing catchup to the leader. > > By the way, I wouldn't object to the copying so much if I didn't see it > as a threat to the open source community itself. I take the long view > which says that if you look far enough out, if the open source community > is successful enough, there won't be anything left to copy. I have to laugh because of a conversation I recently had with the Intel BIOS guys. I was describing some of the more important features of LinuxBIOS and they said: "Yeah we are working on that..." Copying goes both ways. Eric - 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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