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Article #4253Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Robert Uhl ruhl
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:59
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:59
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes: > > In the absence of some "ethical principles," which is (agree with > them or not) what RMS is about, participation in "open source" is a > pretty purely pragmatic matter, and when it becomes pragmatic to > stop doing so, companies can jump off the bandwagon just as easily > as they jumped on. Yup--that's why I identify more with the free software side of things (despite the unfortunate name). But, were my ethical convictions not so great, I may have been tempted to more towards the so-called `open source' side of things because of the FSF's Linux name silliness. > There's Tom Lord's "Arch" that has a quite fascinating architecture. > I suspect there are enough partially done things out there that at > least one is worth further developing. I read a bit about it on his pages, but I must confess that I find them quite difficult to navigate. When I've more time, perhaps I'll get into it. -- Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> Try travelling from state to state in America without a driver's license and proof of insurance, to be yielded up to the first uniformed road-thug who demands it. --L. Neil Smith
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