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I think the interesting thing here is that people focus on Linus either because of a misconception about who makes an entire desktop distro or because no one wants to focus on the radicalism of Richard Stallman. It's interesting to me because I admire the principled stand of Stallman and appreciate the technical drive of Torvalds. It's sort of why I have a soft spot for Tomas Paine, he took a principled stand against British Rule, Royalism, Religion and all systems that required people to never use their common sense. But in the end he was almost arrested for seditious libel in England, almost guillotined in France which had at first celebrated him and worse lynched for being an atheist in the US and denied the vote in the very country he helped create. We can not, and must not forget Stallman's work and foresight and celebrate him for Free software which begat so many other movements; weather he wrote the kernel or not, he wrote the ideas that the license is based on and one of it's keys to it's success. Regards, Martin Owens 2008/7/20 Samuel Baldwin <[hidden email]>: > 2008/7/20, [hidden email] <[hidden email]>: >> I think "rather-good kernel" is overly generous. Take a look at the >> original source. > > He also said it probably wouldn't be ported. Then he titled his M.Sc. > thesis 'Linux: A Portable Operating System'. So I don't think the > original source applies at all to what it is now. And is anything > "rather-good" at version 0.1? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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