On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:02:21PM +0200, smaffulli@inwind.it wrote:
Did VA's background as a hardware company influence this? Is their setup so tuned towards selling products that they can't sell services?
that sounds like a good point, thanks. It still leaves exposed the question ESR backing up such a move: can we consider this as the final act of the Open Source Initiative? Is OSI over now? Shall we say it? Or who else should claim the end of OSI?
You do realise that ESR is a board member of VA Linux? He owns / was given stock in the company, and sits as a director IIRC. Much like RMS being CEO (Chief Ethics Officer ;) of FreeDevelopers. Except RMS wouldn't back FreeDevelopers up if they released non-Free software :)
On a more general point, I think we need a "Linuxmanship"-style page for free software. I'm off to see what's out there... any got some
What do you mean with "Linuxmanship"-style page?
Linuxmanship was a paper about advocating Linux in a positive manner, IIRC. I didn't particularly like it much myself - referring to Windows as a 'legacy' system I didn't think would work, for example - but the basic ideas are spot on: don't negatively campaign, don't use terms like Winblows, M$, etc. Be adult and professional: Linux [Free Software] is good enough to stand up to arguments on its own.
Cheers,
Alex.
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