catb and GNU

Posted Aug 21, 2006 10:58 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring) by rfunk
Parent article: Linuxs iPod Generation Gap (Red Herring)

A lot of people do seem to miss this point.

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":
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html