Linus on the BK withdrawal [LWN.net]

Linus on the BK withdrawal

Posted Apr 6, 2005 16:40 UTC (Wed) by gowen (guest, #23914)
In reply to: Linus on the BK withdrawal by pizza
Parent article: Linus on the BK withdrawal

It's his (company's) software, so they can set whatever terms they want

No one's denying that. Larry is completely within his rights.

The comedic cognitive dissonance arises because the descriptions of his actions

"Larry did everything he could" (Linus)
"this is really an open source community problem" (Larry)
"we represent as open-source friendly a commercial organization as you are ever going to see" (Larry, again)

that are so patently at odds with the facts. (The suggestion that BitMover -- who have released almost no source to any of their products -- are the most open source friendly than Novell, say, is simply laughable).

Or, of course, when he does something insanely moronic, like suggest kernel developers should "Code Red" one of their members, like the Marine Corps.

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Linus on the BK withdrawal

Posted Apr 7, 2005 9:16 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Gowen, please stop bragging this BS here.

They ARE (at least were) OS-friendly. They DIDN'T claim to compare with Novell TTBOMK. Whom are you arguing with, or just a troll?

Linus on the BK withdrawal

Posted Apr 7, 2005 13:22 UTC (Thu) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

They DIDN'T claim to compare with Novell

They described themselves as "as open-source friendly a commercial organization as you are *ever* going to see."

Sorry kiddo, but that's a superlative, and that means they're comparing themself with everyone.

Linus on the BK withdrawal

Posted Apr 12, 2005 19:11 UTC (Tue) by zander76 (guest, #6889) [Link]

Hmm, Interesting point.

Well the fact is that they may or may not release there software opensource. They released a commercial product to a group of opensource developers for free. That does sound like an opensource frendly commercial company. They decided to help when there were no other alternatives (aside from cvs of course).

As far as Novel, perhaps you have not been reading but they have released a lot of tech from both Suse and Ximian that were originally closed source. So they are releasing. Perhaps not as quick as you would like but Novel was a completely closed company and Suse was open source yet suse ended up with closed source tech that was later released by Novel. So positions are changing.

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