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What GCC and RMS did (and I suspect their goal was all along) was to change the Overton Window [1] of acceptability for open source. Remember this was still the

What GCC and RMS did (and I suspect their goal was all along) was to change the Overton Window [1] of acceptability for open source. Remember this was still the time that Solaris was not open source, and Microsoft was borging competitors . It was not definitely the Visual-Studio-is-open-source time. By creating a hard line, and building a compelling alternative to proprietary compilers, he introduced a seed of change in the minds of young programmers at that time .... All of whom are senior management now and share a belief that things like Protocol Buffers should be open source. In fact, its interesting that Android is inducing this change all over again (not Linux). Its a viable answer to "its not as good as an iPhone,why should I buy it". [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

SFjulie1 11y ago
The true genious is bill gates who invented closed source software in 1976 letter to the hobbyist. Now everybody cannot think of sofware as naturally different than propietary. Hence giving an opportunity for a natural monopoly. Bill gates used security an argument a lot, and only became a little more secure by using permissive open source or buying software from poorer concurrent that had no good backup from their banks. Bill gates is the baron de Beaumarchais of computers : whining about being riped of software he did not created because people would give the interpreter so that their code could be used. A right on the second creation. Just for the record Beaumarchais, whining for special treatment as an artist. He was a smuggler, a weapon dealer, a baron, an aristocrat, and a revolutionary AND he created the fundamental rights of authors. The true fundation of liberalism: as long as it works for me, let's do revolution.

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What GCC and RMS did (and I suspect their goal was all along) was to change the Overton Window [1] of acceptability for open source. Remember this was still the

by sandGorgon 11y ago

SFjulie1 11y ago
The true genious is bill gates who invented closed source software in 1976 letter to the hobbyist. Now everybody cannot think of sofware as naturally different than propietary. Hence giving an opportunity for a natural monopoly. Bill gates used security an argument a lot, and only became a little more secure by using permissive open source or buying software from poorer concurrent that had no good backup from their banks. Bill gates is the baron de Beaumarchais of computers : whining about being riped of software he did not created because people would give the interpreter so that their code could be used. A right on the second creation. Just for the record Beaumarchais, whining for special treatment as an artist. He was a smuggler, a weapon dealer, a baron, an aristocrat, and a revolutionary AND he created the fundamental rights of authors. The true fundation of liberalism: as long as it works for me, let's do revolution.