On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:10:42 +0200 Benjamin Pflugmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> This is in reference to statements from Linus Torvalds such as: > (taken from: http://lwn.net/2002/0425/a/ideology-sucks.php3) > > Quite frankly, I don't _want_ people using Linux for ideological > reasons. I think ideology sucks. This world would be a much better > place if people had less ideology, and a whole lot more "I do this > because it's FUN and because others might find it useful, not > because I got religion". > > So the statement above doesn't mean that Linus Torvalds hasn't done a > a lot for the free software community. It just means, that he didn't > do it with ideology as his primary motive. Linux wasn't created > because he wanted to replace something, but because he thought it was > fun to do. > > In contrast, GNU software has been created purely for ideologic > reasons. Already the name GNU (GNU's Not Unix) gives it away: it was > set out to be a replacement for the proprietary Unixes. Reminds me of the old Wobblie song, "which side are you on...?" I see his point about ideology, but there's a difference between ideology and *philosophy*, which I think describes the GNU project more accurately than "ideology". -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yates
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