Grendel,
If you want to go on and license your code for fair or even extortive
prices, that is perfectly in accord with the Linux model. You might not
make too many friends, but that is your choice. Richard Stallman might
be a little eccentric, but we need a staunch foil to the coercive types
like Bill Gates who are pro-actively quashing innovation. Would you
prefer to be in Mr. Gates camp? Stallman is a hero in my eyes. Just a
thought.
-Steve Pardee
Kalum / Grendel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Steve Fernandez commented thusly,
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Well, Stallman did visit our college, and delivered his speech
> > on software patents. But it was the session after that that I enjoyed.
> > It was a technical session, explaining the HURD, the kernel of the GNU.
> > It's still under development, and boy, isn't it wonderful!!! Even Linus
> > Torvalds admits that this multiserver-microkernel model will replace his
> > monolithic kernel model eventually. This one has a much smaller memory
> > footprint, implements a high level of abstraction, so that it can be
> > extended easily, has revolutionary new ideas, one of which is called a
> > translator.
>
> Yes but the inherent trouble with microkernels that they are significantly
> slow when compared with kernels like linux.
>
> Also I dont think the HURD will ever attain the popularity of linux,
> the reason is that HURD never has had and never will attain the level of
> hype which surrounds linux, because its the FSF that makes it, and they
> have absurd demans like "every software should be free", in otherwords
> they probably would prohibit non free software to be run on the HURD (if
> you think I am joking read RMS's view on why linux should be called
> GNU/Linux and that shit and his strong insistance on freedom). What RMS
> should realise is that if it were not for Linux his FSF would not have got
> even one hundred of the publicity it has now.
>
> If the HURD attains the status of linux (which it will never will)
> then we will not be able to run non free software like soldier of fortune,
> Real movie player on them so think about whether the hurd is a good thing.
>
> Free software is a good thing, and should be made available, but it is not
> a consistent way of making money, in the Free software world you can only
> make money by playing out the role of a third party, for example RH is a
> third party packager, whose linux distro consists of mostly software
> written by NON rh people round the world. Which is why their buisness
> position is so precarious and they are threatened by Debian, and Mandrake
> and vice versa (except debian which is not profit oriented).
>
> Sometimes I really wonder why I write open source software, and whether to
> make it closed software, as IMHO the number of people who "steal" ideas
> and use them to build rival projects far exceeds the number of
> contributions to the developement of the software.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Grendel
>
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