Bruce is right. [LWN.net]

Bruce is right.

Posted Jul 3, 2005 12:57 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet) by Ross
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

We don´t need ESR anymore. Look at the "huge success" in marketing and
development momentum the BSDs are. Heh. No offense to the BSD crowd, but
they are only "in the map" IMHO because of the great deal of GPLd software
that was available some time ago... including, and mainly GCC, which is
the toolchain to make *every* one of them. Pfff. Nothing to see here.

ESR and his "Open Source" thing was needed at a certain point to un-scare
all the enterprises, but nowadays, any sane PHB will just go after IBM :-)

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Bruce is right.

Posted Jul 20, 2005 13:37 UTC (Wed) by armijn (guest, #3653) [Link]

Conveniently forgetting that early Linux distributions made heavy use of
the BSD tools, until there was a GNU replacement. So you could say that
Linux is on the map because of the great deal of BSD licensed software that was available in the beginning of Linux.