Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:05:27 -0400 | From | "Dave Neuer" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On 6/19/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote: > Scott Preece wrote: > > On 6/19/07, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote: > > > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > Tivo didn't make the Linux success. More Tivos can definitely undo it. > > > > > > I don't think so. > > > > > > First, it's not Linux that made success, but rather GNU that uses Linux > > > as its kernel. And, believe it or not, when people say Linux, they > > > really mean GNU. People could care less what kernel they were running, > > > as long as the system is up and runs the procs that offer their > > > services. > > > > --- > > > > Actually, for use in devices (like TiVos or cell phones), it is very > > definitely the kernel that is of interest. Many such devices use > > little or no GNU software (some manufacturers have consciously avoided > > it because of the possibility of shifts like the GPLv3 changes). > > Sure, but was it Linux in embedded devices that made Linux what it is today, > or was it GNU/Linux?
It was Apache. Apache showed corporate users and small businesses desperate to cash in on the Interweb c. 1995-1998 that they could do it w/out paying some proprietary vendor and get better performance, security and support to boot (I reported a bug in Apache JServ in 1998 and a fix was released by the time I came back from lunch 1/2 hour later). Linux was a tool for UNIX sysadmins and admin wannabes to practice their UNIX chops at home - or a conveniently inexpensive platform on which to run Apache. Companies -- other than Linux distributors -- didn't bet their business on it.
Apache's success greatly contributed to the corporate acceptance of Linux, IMHO.
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