[svlug] A little on Open Source Philosophy...

[Harry Souders]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Gies, Dennis wrote:

> could do was ask him how he explained the Linux movement, but the truth is
> the Linux movement is strongly founded in beliefs that underlie
> socialism...people innovate because it makes them feel good; its for the

YIKES!!!
Maybe it's just me, but I find it disturbing when people compare
FreeBSD/GNU/OpenSource/Linux to politics. I already get the warped
comments from MS devotees that Linux is for extreme leftist radial
nonconformist hippies et.al.  :-) 

To me it's just a tool, but unlike most tools it's fully adustable,
customizeable, ultra reliable,
[insert_your_favorite_trait_here:]__________, etc.

Btw, anyone tried RedHat v5.2?



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