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he's far too dogmatic This is his curse: and many people reproach him this. His standard reply is, that if he would have ever given way to "compromises" by bei
by Create 18y ago
he's far too dogmatic
This is his curse: and many people reproach him this.
His standard reply is, that if he would have ever given way to "compromises" by being less "dogmatic", GNU/Linux would have never happened: it would be infested with proprietary blobs all the way through giving control to others, rather than you, the proprietor, to the detriment of your freedom. Maybe I am wrong, but I tend to agree, if you compare the popularity of GNU/Linux vs. any other Unix, notably the FreeBSD and its variants.
Finally, I like the door knob analogy of Jeremy Allison:
http://twit.tv/floww14 http://twit.tv/floww14
to which e.g. Mark Shuttleworth would also subscribe: this is the only reason for the popularity and explosive growth of Ubuntu. The day this changes (like it did for say RedHat), it will also decline in popularity (completely different than material profit of stakeholders), something a few people already start seeing signs of.
- allenbrunson 18y agoi'm not convinced. rms has a lot of geek cred due to emacs, gcc, etc. if he'd spent that cred wisely, i think it's reasonable to assume he could have gotten a lot of other programmers to do his bidding, and gnu hurd would now be the kernel of choice, rather than linux.