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Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking
sebFlyte writes "Fighting the MS FUD machine is a full time job for some open source developers, especially now Microsoft have thrown in the issue of the possibility of Linux forking (as Unix did)... it would also seem that Gates has moved on from telling people to 'get the facts' and creating FUD around patents and IP to criticising the open source communty's ability to create interoperable software."
odd, that the post was visible via rss before plain old web browser.
Microsoft certainly seems to be spending a lot of time and effort to sabotage Linux in the minds, if not hearts, of corporate executives around the world. But the company would do well to wake up and realize that its FUD campaign will have absolutely no effect on the adoption of Linux, or on open source development in general.
Linux will wither and die no matter what Microsoft does.
What a fucking troll. Get over yourself. "Steal" your work. Bullshit, that's why the GPL is fucking "viral" license. Then can take your code, but they always have to give it back. Guess what happens if some big bad corporation starts to take your code? ... You just got free development for your code! And you can port it all back into your version! Hooray.
Meanwhile, if you're still crying because you can't decide between Gentoo and Debian's live CDs, I'm sure you can just wait another half hour and your XP box will be owned and reformatted to one or the other.
instead of fighting the FUD of forking please fight the FUD of bathing
I've seen way too many people arguing that forking is like the process of evolution. It's quite simple. While there is tremendous diversity amongst life on this planet, the difference in DNA between a human and a bacteria is 10% or less. Add to that the basic fact that all DNA works the same way, using the same kinds of carbon chains. Forking like BSD and AT&T isn't the same thing as evolution because the incompatibility barriers raised are more like like group abdoning ATCG. And that's before you even get into considering different hardware, something bioligically akin to if we found life that wasn't organic. The kind of compatibility here simply doesn't do a good analogy with evolution.