GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)
Posted Jan 26, 2007 16:17 UTC (Fri) by
landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to:
GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN) by donbarry
Parent article:
GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? (CRN)
> Raymond may have become a one-trick pony who has drifted away from
> current relevance,
Depends on your definition of "relevance". The Art of Unix Programming
was a new york times bestseller around 2003/2004, is still in print 3
years later, and he was asked to do a teaching supplement so it could be
used as a textbook. He may no longer maintain the Emacs Lisp library, the
sunsite infrastructure, or fetchmail (which he handed off to other
maintainers 4-5 years ago and people are _still_ blaming him about for the
exploit du jour), but his current coding project is fairly well used (he
maintains gpsd, the global positioning system daemon). Before that he did
a tree comparison thing (comparator/shredcompare) which gets used in court
from time to time, and probably other stuff I haven't noticed. He
regularly starts things and hands them off to other people: he could have
stayed president of OSI for life (after all he founded it) but he handed
it off (_twice_, it came back the first time) because that's not what he
wanted.
> but Bruce has certainly taken a different path -- one which has brought
> him far closer to the FSF's camp. As such, he's shown personal growth
> and contributed to political discussions consistently on a progressive
> front.
What's the last remotely relevant thing Bruce did beyond "give
interviews"? Other than argue in favor of a position you like?
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