Re: [OS:N:] Re: open-source in schools and then some

[Jeremy Hogan <jhogan redhat com>]

> 
> As a thought exercise, consider how Linux would have developed had the
> market and money not entered into it. Would the same decisions have been
> made? The same paths taken? I don't think so. I don't think we would be as
> fragmented. 

The "money" is driving Linux toward standards and away from possible
fragmentation if anything. ISV's wanted the LSB as much as anyone.

I would guess that w/o money, there would have been opinions as to where
to head, which in the beginning, could have meant *anywhere*. We needed
revenue to set a direction as to where to go first, perhaps.

> Don't get me wrong. I don't blame Red Hat and the others for
> their IPO's. The market and money does enter into things.
> 
> As for Lessig's book. I read it about a year ago. I remember liking it, but
> I don't remember anything else.

Read it again. Read the second one, too, if you have the time.

> 
> Ed Kunin
> http://www.egalite.com
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