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Incorrect: http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs
by ordinary 15y ago
Incorrect: http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs
- dextorious 15y agoProbably he means: Jobs shipped some world changing tech. Now, what exactly GNU offers that appeals to non-geeks? It took Google to make Linux something the big masses will use (in Android).
- phoobahr 15y agoJobs helped create and industry, Stallman helped create a licence Jobs drove a company to be a commercially significant platform (twice) and more recently redesigned the way such an entity could produce desirable goods people want to buy. Stallman will be remembered as the man who failed to produce HURD, quibbled about licences and fell on his sword when arguing an extreme position rather than, y'know, shipping an alternative. You just don't get to categorically decry a market leader's strategic, commercial, and production accomplishments as 'jail made cool' unless you're willing and able to show a functional option. People will buy what they like and, to some degree, like what they buy. Whether they purchased goods with time, money, labour or some form of opportunity loss it doesn't matter: every sale is a _sale_ and Stallman has never sold. He's had a hand in building some niche 'ware (some of which makes my little world go 'round, to be sure) and championed some ideas which others have utilized to great good but the man himself doesn't ship or cause to ship in anything like the league that Jobs did.