From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] (sorry)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:54:21 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16119.16077.910680.251097@laputa.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306231945.34245.gallir@uib.es>
Ricardo Galli writes:
> > Forgive me if I don't mix your theories into my practice.
>
> Take it the other way around:
>
> Forgive if other people don't want to mix _your_ practices in theirs.
>
> Not everyone wants a "giant software company", not everyone wants to compete
> againts the big players, not everyone wants to have employees or earn insane
> amounts of money. Furthermore, "giant software houses" are not going to save
> the world.
>
> Lot of people think that a free BK _will_ be created sooner or later if it's
> needed, with or without Larry McVoy. In the same way TeX was created, or
> TCP/IP, or DNS, or smtp, or http/html... all of them were disruptive, very
> innovative, free and without any big company or lot of money to do "the real
> innovation".
>
> BTW, for some people, ReiserFS is quite innovative, it comes from a small
> company doing services, it's free, and it seems that Hans is reasonably happy
> :-)
And these examples show that free software can "parasite" on something
else than large company doing a lot of R&D. Government is not exactly a
easy host to kill. :-)
>
>
> --
> ricardo galli GPG id C8114D34
Nikita.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-23 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 17:45 Ricardo Galli
2003-06-23 17:54 ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
2003-06-24 6:03 ` Hans Reiser
2003-06-24 10:47 ` Stewart Smith
2003-06-24 12:13 ` joe briggs
2003-06-24 11:31 ` Hans Reiser
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