Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 05:30:33 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> 
>>> Would the world be a better place with no GPL and all software created
>>> by those who now create code under the GPL putting it into the public
>>> domain instead?
>> Microsoft would almost certainly have been displaced years ago by many 
>> other companies building better products containing this code - or at 
>> least have been forced to build much better products to stay 
>> competitive.  That alone would have made the world a better place.
> ----
> I doubt that it would have made the world a better place any more than
> Coca-Cola does (and I'm a loyal Coke drinker).
> 
> The fact is, it is not now, nor has it ever been a stated goal to
> 'displace' Microsoft...at least not by the major Linux players. You've
> confused your own aspirations with those of various contributors to that
> which is known as Linux.

That may well be true, but restricting things to only serve your own 
goals is not the way to either freedom or making the world a better place.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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