oh yeah, and about the article

Posted Oct 23, 2003 15:57 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755)
In reply to: oh yeah, and about the article by hppnq
Parent article: Two views of the Unix philosophy

RIP, Mr. Stevens.

ESR is a lightning rod, and while it didn't surprise me that Ciaran had
the first comment here, I'm really a bit surprised that there weren't
more...

While Ciaran likes to dis ESR whenever possible -- and some of those
snipes are actually well taken -- I will in fact agree wholeheartedly
with his primary thesis on this point: yeah, with a little help from
Linux, rms *did* change the world.

I firmly believe that the reason for the mad proliferation of Linux
(sorry; luv ya rms, but I'm not gonna play the terminology game) is in
fact the fact that rms has provided the GPL for Linus to choose to
license his kernel under. And there seems no realistic doubt that Our
Plans For World Domination (a phrase I don't see *near* often enough
anymore -- are we too close to think it's funny now?) will succeed beyond
our wildest dreams.

The only prediction I *can't* make, with any reasonable facility, is when
Microsoft Linux will ship.

:-)