I am truly impressed by Linus' wisdom. I think all blind FOSS evangelists need to take a leaf.
Wire On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 14:44 +0300, patons wrote: > > http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease_ > > > "I agree that it's driven by selfish reasons, but that's how all open > source code gets written! We all "scratch our own itches". It's why I > started Linux, it's why I started git, and it's why I am still > involved. It's the reason for everybody to end up in open source, to > some degree. > > So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to > work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. > That's the point of open source - the ability to make the code better > for your particular needs, whoever the 'your' in question happens to > be. > > Does anybody complain when hardware companies write drivers for the > hardware they produce? No. That would be crazy. Does anybody complain > when IBM funds all the POWER development, and works on enterprise > features because they sell into the enterprise? No. That would be > insane. > > So the people who complain about Microsoft writing drivers for their > own virtualization model should take a long look in the mirror and ask > themselves why they are being so hypocritical." > > > Linus > > > > > > -- > patrick - creative apps developer / dba > _______________________________________________________ > © 2006 - 2009 Copyright OCIRA. All Rights Reserved. > www.ocira.net - [email protected] tel: +256 414 382422, +256 704 > 008818 > SoluWorks > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- >
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