FC4 or FC5

[Sean]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:41:31 -0700
"Alan M. Evans" <ame1 at extratech.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:15, Sean wrote:
> > That opinion doesn't hold up to scrutiny, Linux has succeeded to the
> > measure it has today because of its license and the fact that it
> > encourages developers to contribute to projects they don't own.
> 
> That line of argument would hold up to scrutiny if GNU/HURD had more
> than about 25 actual users. And if there were no developer interest in
> Linux before it was GPL'd.
> 

Sorry I didn't spell it out a little more clearly.  It succeeded because
it was the right software with a license that made it attractive.  I didn't mean
to imply that a GPL license is enough to make any software interesting.

Sean