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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Tuesday 14 November 2006 01:15 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 60 Years Of Heroes
>>> http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2006/opener.html
>>>
>>> Linus Torvalds
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers
>>> | to mobile phones around the world,
>>
>>> | and Torvalds has achieved fame
>>> | as the godfather of the open-source movement,
>>
>> If they want to give credit where credit is due, then they should have
>> honored Richard Stallman - who is the true "father" of the Open Source
>> movement. Stallman created the license and legal structures, wrote the
>> GNU manifesto, and enrolled thousands of contributors into publishing
>> their software under the terms of the GNU Public license. By the time
>> Linux submitted is 10,000 line kernel to Stallman's FSF Archive,
>> Stallman already had most of the libraries, applications, and utilities
>> under either GPL or other OSS licenses such as the MIT X11 license,
>> which made it possible to create a powerful desktop and server
>> environment that could run on an inexpensive PC - within a year after
>> Linus first released that kernel.
>>
>> Linus still deserves credit for not only contributing the kernel, but
>> also for taking all of the contributions made by those who had
>> previously been working on the HURD and BSD projects, and for doing his
>> best to assure that proprietary copyrighted code was not contributed,
>> accidentally, or on purpose.
>>
>> He also deserves credit for working so closely with Stallman's glibc
>> team, and creating a kernel which fully supported the gnu version of
>> libc later known as glibc.
>>
>> Linux also deserves some credit for encouraging the use of LGPL
>> licenses to assure that commercial software could be safely installed
>> on Linux systems, without being forced to publish the entirity of their
>> source code.
>>
>>> | in which software
>>> | code is shared and developed in a collaborative effort rather than
>>> | being kept locked up by a single owner.
>>> `----
>>
>> Again, this accomplishement belongs to Richard Stallman, not Linus
>> Torvalds.
>> He's the one who created the first "public license" and "sold" it to
>> the development community using such proposals as "The GNU Manifesto".
>>
>> It was also Richard who lived on a shoestring budget for years until
>> OSS finally became "an overnight success".
>>
>>> http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2006/torvalds.html
>>
>> Congratulations Linus.
>>
>> Sorry that they missed you Richard.
>
> That is exactly what I thought when I read this. Your detailed knowledge of
> the history is a real gem.
I would have to support Rex's position on this; Richard Stallman was
the man who took the steps into the darkness, in pursuit of a goal so
remote that most people were unable to comprehend it. Linus Torvalds
did a wonderful job of creating the kernel which has underpinned most of
the GNU tools in the end, and deserves enormous credit for that.
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