On 28/10/06 21:26 +0530, ???????????????????????????|Praveen wrote: <snip> > There weren't many "Open Source" or "Scratch my itch" people before > GNU/Linux got popular. GNU project was started in 1984 and Linux was
Well, the FSF was mostly started as a response to then "new" closed source culture. It wasn't idealism, as much as the fact that there was a bunch of people who wanted to do things differently from the closed source vendor and use whatever was available. There was the BSD camp, and the FSF. The BSD folks didn't write their own compiler because the output of gcc is not GPLed. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
