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Feed Special Issue on Free Software

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Josh Baugher wrote in to say that Feed is running a special issue on free software. Includes bits with RMS, ESR. More is coming, including bits from the GNOME boys and Larry Wall. Nice little page.

11 comments

  1. "Special Issue/Article/Feature on OSS" : Cliched by Cassius · · Score: 1

    How droll. We know the story already. How many times can it be told before it gets terribly boring, cliched, and gratuitous?

  2. Gnome -- who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe the "Gnome boys" ought to try to get a useable product out the door and not worry about interviews.

  3. Stallman vs. Allman by bnf · · Score: 1
    Hmm. Does Richard Stallman carry some resentment for Eric Allman pursuing commercial opportunities with Sendmail, Inc.? It doesn't look like they think the same way about the world or the future of free and/or open software.

    Does anyone know of any other sites with these people (or others of their ilk) discussing the underlying framework of the free software/open source communities?

    FYI - there are other comments on the feedmag site that /.ers might find interesting.

    bnf

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  4. Don't Think So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Point of note: Allman is making money out of supporting sendmail, which is the intended economic model originally proposed by Stallman.

    Stallman should _at_least_ pass on this one. I hope.

  5. Gnome -- who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've been using Gnome for a couple months now. Don't know what you're talking about.

    -BZL

  6. More biased information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It seems like RedHat has a pretty good grip over the media.

    Once again a bunch of articles over Linux and the desktop that doesn't even mention KDE (no link).

    Very sad to see that ideolody has won over technical considerations.
    If anything, this will be the cause for a decline of Linux

  7. Gnome -- who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A simple texteditor and a panel? That's what we had since ages on X11, no? I don't think this deserves the term "coming along great"....

  8. KDE,Suse,Caldera,ect. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I agree with the poster who said that RedHat seems to have a grip of the media (the American media, at least). However one feels about KDE, it at least deserved to be mentioned. Also, the company links only mentioned Sendmail, Cygnus and RedHat. No mention of Suse, Caldera, etc.

  9. Big Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Typical case of web punditism waking up, late, to what the geeks have known for years. Now they'll try try try to understand what it all means -- aren't these the folks who talked of "technorealism" -- meaning, let's not get too excited here, let's have a calm, middle-if-the-way attitude to technological developments, and our little world will stay safe -- ?

  10. Free Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is a special issue on Free Software. That is why KDE is not there.

  11. More biased information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    None of the people interviewed work on KDE, in fact none of them even work on GUI projects.

    If they had interviewed Linus he probably would have mentioned it...