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Major systems vendors and LinuxMajor systems vendors and LinuxPosted Mar 2, 2007 3:19 UTC (Fri) by liamh (subscriber, #4872)In reply to: Major systems vendors and Linux by wilck Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux
Not even RMS. Way-back-when in the late 80s and early 90s when there was no completely free OS, he developed lots of software (emacs, gcc, etc.) for non-free systems like SunOS. I believe his reasoning was that it was permissible because there wasn't an alternative, and drew an analogy to killing for self defense.
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Major systems vendors and Linux Posted Mar 12, 2007 12:26 UTC (Mon) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link] But remember that one of the sparks which led to the whole thing developing was RMS' disgust at a printer manufacturer's refusal to divulge exactly the kind of information under discussion in this thread:
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html
Don't you think RMS would have been a good deal less tolerant of Solaris had Sun withheld details of how to make system calls on the grounds that it was "proprietary information"? (Or had Sun prohibited redistribution of any software compiled with their C compiler under GPL-like terms, for that matter?)
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