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Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds? |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:55:35 -0400 |
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Josh Martens wrote:
> Ha good luck, Linus knows exactly what he's doing, he's got an ego the size
> of a mountain.
I don't really think so.
> He doesn't seem to agree with the ideals of GNU, and stupidyl calls himself
> apolitical, which means taking a political stance against GNU
> type idealists.
Basically right.
> The only reason he does Free software is because it worked out for him and
> made him a lot of money, if that hadn't happened he would have no
> problem writing proprietary software.
I believe he did write proprietary software at Transmeta, which was well
into Linux development. That said, while he doesn't believe in free
software, he has nonetheless made a great contribution to it. Also, I
don't see how he could possibly have had a profit motivation in starting
Linux.
Matt Flaschen
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- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Guy Johnston, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Dave Crossland, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Josh Martens, 2007/03/23
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Matthew Flaschen <=
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- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, CK Raju, Thrissur, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, CK Raju, Thrissur, 2007/03/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] Email address for Linus Torvalds?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/03/25
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