From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:31:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:31:14 -0500 Received: from mark.mielke.cc ([216.209.85.42]:25608 "EHLO mark.mielke.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:31:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:48:24 -0500 From: Mark Mielke To: Tom Sightler Cc: robw@optonline.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Message-ID: <20030111194824.GA11878@mark.mielke.cc> References: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5A03C0F4@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> <1042250324.1278.18.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> <015901c2b920$7420e4c0$fe01a8c0@deepspace9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <015901c2b920$7420e4c0$fe01a8c0@deepspace9> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:20:09PM -0500, Tom Sightler wrote: > > He just got lucky on his timing... Anyone studying operating systems at > > the time (and heck, I remember owning a book "Creating your own 32-bit > > operating system" by SAMS publishing and being inspired, and I also > > owned "Disecting DOS" which was a nice analysis of a DOS-like operating > > system at the code-level book w/disk) > You could also argue that GNU got lucky on it's timing, otherwise we might > still be waiting on a "GNU OS" rather than arguing over how important it is > to put GNU in front of Linux. As far as I am concerned, we still *are* waiting for a "GNU OS", or rather *THE* "GNU OS" that Richard Stallman keeps talking about as having been almost complete in 1992, but even in 2003, is not ready to be rolled out. This very truth - the fact that Richard Stallman's people have taken more than 10 years, and they still are not done, suggests that the existence of an OS such as Linux is not an 'accident' related to certain skillsets colliding at a random interval, such as the original poster wishes to suggest. *Microsoft*... now *that* is a 'certain skillsets colliding at random interval' scenario... :-) Oops... I think I just extended this thread. Damn. mark -- mark@mielke.cc/markm@ncf.ca/markm@nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/