Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring)
Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring)
Posted Aug 18, 2006 17:44 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring) by k8to
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Note that "The Cathedral And The Bazaar" was most directly an attack on
the GNU cathedral, not any commercial cathedral.
Posted Aug 21, 2006 2:38 UTC (Mon)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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The difference of course is that in the 8 years or so, the GNU project has put up savannah, made
Posted Aug 28, 2006 22:42 UTC (Mon)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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Posted Aug 21, 2006 10:58 UTC (Mon)
by coriordan (guest, #7544)
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CATB seems to have been targetted at criticising either GNU or specifically RMS. If it was about cathederalism, a good writer would have included the examples of BSD and glibc - instead or in addition to Emacs and GCC.
The choice of examples seems to have been coloured by a desire to criticise RMS's two crowning software achievements.
That said, my knowledge of CATB is second-hand. It's not on my reading list.
For more on Emacs, GCC, BSD, and Glibc, some reading material I do recommend is Rick Moen's "Fear of Forking":
Hmm, I think it was a criticism of both, but I agree the GNU project was squarely in the crosshairs, Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring)
and in some ways perhaps rightly. Many of their projects are still not very "open" in the sense of
being able to see what is going on in the development very easily. Just the other day I was
attempting to find archives of the ncurses changelogs, mailing list, etc and found none of them
online easily.
their mailing lists more easily searchable, and taken many other steps to improve themselves, while
Eric has descended into wishing for more proprieatary code.
I have (belatedly) realized the amusing irony that ncurses, which Mr. Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring)
Raymond worked on in the past, is squarely in the cathedral camp by
today's standards.
A lot of people do seem to miss this point.catb and GNU
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html