Tarun Gaur said on Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:39:30PM +0000,:
I will give you an example here ... Linux happened and people saw the potential and RMS was able to push the philosophy, first in a very minority community writing some "GOOD" software, then they were able to promote their philosophy because of their work with some GOOD Software and attain wider acceptance.
You got the chronology wrong here. The GNU project came first. Linus released the kernel under the GPL later. The initial license on the kernel was *not* the GNU GPL.
The moment i tried to put his mail across to the list ... we had
Well, you did cc to the list one of your mails in what appears to be part of a long, private correspondence. You will appreciate that people do not like reading others' private mails, unless the sender asks that the mail be published or forwarded.