On 15-Aug-06, at 4:52 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
true - i started using linux in 1996, and the first time i heard about RMS was around 2002. And so far i havent read a single thing he has written - although i have read almost everything ESR has written.
Not even the GNU GPL? So you know about 'The Cathedral and The Bazaar', while not having read the GNU GPL? I do not have words to describe this.
no, i havent read the GPL. The first software i released was on CPAN - for license i just put 'same as perl'. Later, for my sf projects i chose GPL because it was the first choice on the sf list. Nowadays, i find that i use apache, postgres, subversion, python and django - none of them released under GPL. I am leaning to the view that most people who write FOSS code are too busy to bother themselves with the complexities and nit picking of the GPL and prefer a less obtrusive license which allows them to concentrate on what they do best - producing code. So I will probably be shifting my projects to a BSD style license in the near future.
it's about the whole society. No matter how many ``Linux'' users are there in this world or how many companies support ``Open Source'', the whole Free Software revolution will remain a failure as long as we don't understand what Freedom is.
i beg to differ - it will remain a failure in India at least until people stopped sounding off and started writing code
Write code for Microsoft or Apple?
a suprising amount of foss code *is* written for those platforms - see the top 20 on sourceforge