__/ [ 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.
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