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Ian Murdock: Linux is a Process, Not a Product
securitas writes "Debian founder Ian Murdock says that Linux is a process, not a product. He also says that the product mentality 'misses the entire point of Linux and the open-source development model.' Because Linux is made up of many different components developed on independent timeframes, Murdock posits, to refer to Linux as a product is to strip it of its dynamism and closes its inherently open nature. Instead, he says that Linux should be viewed as a shared platform and infrastructure technology, and that business models should reflect that or else Linux risks becoming proprietary, closed and just another cookie-cutter piece of software."
McDonald founder Ronald McDonald says that your happy meal is a process, not a product. It's a process because it is made up of many different components developed on independent timeframes, Ronald posits, to refer to your happy meal as a product is to strip it of its dynamism and defames its inherently delicious nature.
How do you sue a process?
Umm
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There is no linux!
Yes, but this article makes it sound like "special" in the drooling, helmet wearing sense.
If you class linux as a product then they've released more OS updates than Microsoft could ever compete with :)
It's synergrrific!
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Top Ten Highlights Of Bill Gates' Birthday Party
10. Spirited game of "Pin the Tail on the Geek."
9. The part where he bought out the competing birthday party next door.
8. The thrilling rumor that an actual woman might show up.
7. Employee who decorated cake with trick candles that can't be blown out? Fired.
6. The annual tradition--drunkest guy in the room has to cut Bill's hair.
5. Leonard Nimoy presenting him with an autographed Spock ear.
4. Instead of blowing out candles, making vanquished business rivals put them out with their bare hands.
3. Kids got to smash pinata full of $10,000 bills.
2. When he "downloaded" almost 12 bottles of beer before passing out.
1. Scorin' the free meal at Denny's.
I think what you meant to say was:
XML is argued to be a data exchange format, not a data storage format. This article about Linux being a dynamic project has a similarity with treason. It is interesting how liberals now consider the dynamic nature to be the core of interest, instead of the actual tangible aspects. Why do they hate America?
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
"If SCO really does have their way, are we going to run something called SCO-GNU/McLinux?"
No. It will be called: MS SCO Linux GT (Gnu Technology).
MR. T: Murdock? He's a crazy fool.
Who modded this asshole up?! The open source development model is very much like a living organism, and it most certainly is a philosophy. Just because it happens to do useful tasks that doesn't negate these facts.
To me, this makes Linux worth it's weight in gold.
Seems like a strange way to measure value. How much does Linux weigh? GNU? OS X? Windows?
Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings! -Feynman, maybe
Perhaps it weighs more now that it's an organism and not a product, we have to count all those hefty developers.
Perhaps it weighs less, because now it's not a product so you can't count the weight of the CDs.
Perhaps it weighs next to nothing, as it is just a collection of electrons.
Perhaps this whole article, and especially this post, are just plain silly.
Lessee.. "product mentality", check.. "dynamism", check... "shared platform", "infrastructure technology", "cookie-cutter software"... Yup, that fills in a full row on my Buzzword Bingo sheet.