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why bringing something up? [1] just fork, code and... maybe make profit. [2] [1] http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/ [2] http://www.techotopia.com/inde

by af3 14y ago

why bringing something up? [1] just fork, code and... maybe make profit. [2] [1] http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/ [2] http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Red_Hat_Linux http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Red_H...

dalke 14y ago
Or Ubuntu? ;)
- dillona 14y ago
  Shuttleworth is the last person I want to leave my fate up to. He is even after RMS.
  - dalke 14y ago
    It's the UNG project - Ubuntu is Not GNU! (Has no one already made that pun?)
dlisboa 14y ago
Because organization is important. There's more to software distribution than coding and the legal basis of it all is unifying for most free software. Some times you cannot "just fork, code" because the underlying legal framework for your software is broken, and you're forced to reinvent the wheel.
- af3 14y ago
  the license under which code is released is important, the rest are excuses.