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RMS Says Hurd Could Be Loosed in 2002

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-slip-the-dogs-of-code dept.

Mark Cappel writes "According to PCWorld, RMS said in an interview in India that Hurd will see the light of day this year."

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  1. Don't post on level 2 like that! by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 2, Troll

    Crikey. Don't post on level 2 when you're just too dumb/tired to understand what he's saying.

    Quite simply : In the west, we only care about linux because it's cheap. In India, they care because it's Free as in Speech and they consider that a good thing.

    --

    Stop the brainwash

  2. Re:The Hurd and Linux ...and FreeBSD by vovin · · Score: 2, Troll

    Quite wrong (rather completly actually). BSD license is NOT a safe haven for businesses to *share* commodity code. It does a company a disservice to add value that can be repackaged/modified/hidden by their competitor. BSD's failure is UNIX's failure. GPL licenese allows a company to add value knowing that a 3rd party cannot *ever* remove that value via repackage/modify/hide.
    IMHO GPL is always the better license.

    Any company that plans to make money entirly upon software sales is doomed to failure. 60-80% of software cost is maintenence. So the value position in software is to sell SUPPORT contracts. You can give/sell the software *at cost* and still make more on support -- even if the software is so perfect as to never need any support at all.