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Imagine a team of Linus, RMS, JWZ, and Miguel de Icaza; probably a pretty ineffective team I doubt that. One common attribute of great hackers is that they rem
by moe 17y ago
Imagine a team of Linus, RMS, JWZ, and Miguel de Icaza; probably a pretty ineffective team
I doubt that. One common attribute of great hackers is that they remain effective even in the face of personal disagreements. The LKML is a good place to witness that in the wild.
If they fail to compromise they would probably simply divide the problem space according to the individual strengths and preferences...
- strlen 17y agoAgreed: Key thing is that RMS and JWZ did build something together at one point, their views just diverged later (GNU/Lucid/XEmacs emacs split). And of course, just typing this post I am using work of all of these: Firefox (JWZ heritage), on Linux (Linus), using GTK (Miguel), compiled with gcc (RMS).