It seems that politics play as big of a role in the open source movemement as in the corporate world. There are a lot of people contributing to the open source world, and have been contributing for years. The press has jumped on Linux and made it and Linus the poster child for the movement, this has obviously effected other people's egos. I have been using open source code for years and I am thankful to all including the FSF for their efforts. I could almost agree with the Copyleft, but feel much more comfortable with a Berkely copyright. If the press would just focus on Open Source Code and give recognition to all open source efforts it would help. I have used/supported many of these tools, I even used Linux before BSD became free, and I'm sure I will switch back to it when the 2.2 kernel is out on CD rom just to check it out again. I just don't feel that there is legitimate reason to call it GNU/Linux. The FSF deserves recognition but this reminds me of what I find wrong with the copyleft, and that is that the FSF is infringing on other peoples freedom to decide how they want to release their code. There are more ways to be free than just the copyleft!!!
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It seems that politics play as big of a role in the open source movemement as in the corporate world. There are a lot of people contributing to the open source world, and have been contributing for years. The press has jumped on Linux and made it and Linus the poster child for the movement, this has obviously effected other people's egos.
I have been using open source code for years and I am thankful to all including the FSF for their efforts. I could almost agree with the Copyleft, but feel much more comfortable with a Berkely copyright. If the press would just focus on Open Source Code and give recognition to all open source efforts it would help. I have used/supported many of these tools, I even used Linux before BSD became free, and I'm sure I will
switch back to it when the 2.2 kernel is out on CD rom just to check it out again. I just don't feel that there is legitimate reason to call it GNU/Linux. The FSF deserves recognition but this
reminds me of what I find wrong with the copyleft,
and that is that the FSF is infringing on other peoples freedom to decide how they want to release their code. There are more ways to be free than just the copyleft!!!