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LWN.net Linux Timeline 2002

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the memories-like-the-blam-blam-blam dept.

Cpyder writes "The fine folks over at Linux Weekly News have just released their 2002 Linux Timeline. It's nice to see what good things have happened to the community this year."

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  1. Stallman quote by Caractacus+Potts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RMS has a quote on the Dec 2002 page that says "What I can say is that Microsoft has enough cash on hand to pay 5,000 programmers to write free software for about a century. There is clearly no need for the proprietary software model".

    I'm stuck in an infinite loop trying to parse this statement, could somebody help me.

    1. Re:Stallman quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, not speaking for RMS obviously, but you could deduce from the size of Microsoft's cash pile that people will pay lots of money for software. If instead of paying for software products, people paid to employ free software developers, there would be a superabundace of quality of free software and little demand for propietary solutions.

  2. Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I've never seen a story on /. get so little responses.