On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:46:47 +0200 Antonio Rendina via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> Having control on some open/free source software piece helps you to > drive the project in the direction that you find more convenient or > to kill the project the moment that you don't need it anymore. I've noticed this, and I had speculated that companies will themselves found projects to re-create various things in order to stall them into copying code that becomes legacy long before the project is competitive. I suspect this of projects like the various BeOS implementations. > ... Firefox is tied with all two hands to Google that is in control > of Chrome and Chromium too. I also see some projects, certainly Mozilla, as tied to politics as well, which is especially stupid; I'd liken that to a constraint/tether to an external philosophy. > Linus Torvalds at today has been one of the best at playing this > game. Maybe not on other fronts, but that is wrong on the philosophy front. Didn't he bow out of some aspects of his effort for some reasons? _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng