[Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux

[steve]

On 06/06/2010 09:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Saturday 05 June 2010 22:13:44 praveen chandrahas wrote:
>>  It doesn't mean we can conveniently forget the ideological background.
>>  Remember, it was the ideology that
>>  spurred the development of the free OS. *Not the other way round*. The
>>   whole thing was written
>>  because people loved the ideology.
>
> who said so? people did/do it because they enjoy doing it - the guys with
> idealogy usually spend their time preaching and not developing and maintaining
> software.
>

It doesn't have to be one or the other. Linus created linux because it was fun 
but he licensed it under the GPL, in fact *specifically* GPLv2, because he 
*deeply* cares about, understands and agrees with the ideology (note that 
agreeing/subscribing to an ideology != being a fanatic).

References:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/8382
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7161
http://kerneltrap.org/node/8369
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
http://www.tlug.jp/docs/linus.html

cheers,
- steve


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