Re: Tocqueville on open source development

[Dan Strychalski <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw>]

Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote --

> See "The GNU Manifesto" at
>
> http://www.fsf.org/gnu/manifesto.html
>
> Key quotes:
>
> "GNU will remove operating system software from the realm of competition."
>
> This statement acknowledges that the purpose of the Free Software
> Foundation, and what Stallman calls "GNU/Linux," is to eliminate
> competition.

....in *operating system software*. The bedrock on which everything
else rests.

I still distrust Stallman. But this idea looks better and better.

Currently, ONLY non-commercial operating systems allow me to enjoy the
intended benefits of the formal, INDUSTRY-APPROVED standards I cherish
more than almost anything else.

Aside: I am told that "everyone" in the test lab outside my office is
setting up Linux on their machines. The guy who told me this, upon
hearing that I use Linux and SunOS in text mode, seemed impressed: "So
you use vi...." I tried to tell him about Joe, but I'm not sure it got
through. When I told him I ran not Linux but MS-DOS locally, he said,
"So you must use PE2" (a simple editor that IBM cobbled together in the
early eighties). He was 100% serious. Your kind of guy, Eric.

Dan Strychalski
dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw