Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog | From | Nix <> | Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 14:17:16 +0100 |
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On 20 May 2005, Patrick McFarland suggested tentatively: > As everyone knows, Joerg Schilling has a blog, and he often pushes his > pro-Solaris agenda, and flames the LKML about how Linux breaks cdrecord > (instead of just admitting cdrecord is broken) or how much more awesome > Solaris is compared to Linux. > > Well, he just fired yet another salvo at the Linux community: > http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/04/value-marketing-and-freedom.html
His research sucks.
: Later, the LGPL has been created and parts of the GCC (libgcc) has : been put under LGPL.
Wrong. It is trivial to check gcc/libgcc*c and observe that libgcc is *not* LGPLed, but licensed under the GPL plus an exception permitting unrestricted linkage to proprietary software. (Related exceptions are used for the libstdc++ headers and the Ada runtime.)
Just before that, he said:
: This acceptance has not been present from the beginning. In the : beginning, the whole GCC has been published under the GPL and thus could : not be used to compile software that itself has not been published under : the GPL. For this reason, there has been an excited discussion about the : usability of GCC.
Note that in Joerg's worldview, a mistake equals conspiracy. This is a classic kook's mindview. Jeff's right: the best thing we can do is to just ignore him.
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