> Please, don't get me wrong. :) But I actually fear the > day in which > gnu/Linux will have a wider success. Because I fear > that this will > happen only if gnu/Linux will abandon (or at least > hide) its real > strenghts and its real philosophy. Or worse it could > finally become just > another commercial o.s. Ultimately your concern is are the GPL, its variants and cousins up to the challange. It is the license that defines and governs our movement. Is that a fair assessment? If lynksys comes along and doesn't disclose the use of GPL code someone will figure it out and we will get something like openwrt as a result. > For me gnu/Linux is the best operating system > because it is free (as in Is > free speech). The fact that open source software > most of the times is > better, in terms of power and versatility, than its > commercial > counterpart is a direct consequence of the whole > open source philosophy > and the people, the community behind it. But consider the example of a software engineer that invests years and spends his savings in an effort to help build Linux Audio. Literally. At a certain point he stops working fulltime on Linux Audio and the development of our "free" audio movement slows down. > I think that we don't have to demonstrate anything > to anybody. We should > just thank god that there are still some people who > value freedom and > the right of knowledge. Amen. And God helps those who help themselves so I'm guessing we should keep swinging our hammers. If we're into OSS just > because we think it's > better, we've missed the point about why it is > better. I think it boils down to the licenses and not to people. If the licenses are up to the task then success will bring more money, progress and better tools so everyone of us will have a richer experience. We have an awesome movement with lots of excellent people. It's alot of fun. There might be some rough spots and despite all of them I've noticed that Linux keeps plodding along and getting bigger and richer. :) ron > Just my two cents. > > c. > www.cesaremarilungo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
