From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)
To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
Cc: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:47:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199707092347.QAA21705@oz.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199707092337.TAA02741@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Jul 9, 97 07:37:30 pm
:
: From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca>
: Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
:
: A friend sent this to me, and I thought it was excellent.
:
:I bet he saw it on the gcc2 developers list... from me ;-)
:
It is an excellent piece. The problem is that many will not
have the patience to read it since it is so long.
My internal "Why Linux/Freeware" web page at SGI has a pointer to
Eric Raymond's treatise (since David pointed it to me for which
I'm grateful).
To make it easier for more people to grasp I use to send
this short excerpt from the last part:
No commercial developer can match the pool of talent the Linux
community can bring to bear on a problem. Very few could afford
even to hire the more than two hundred people who have contributed
to fetchmail! [A freeware program maintained by Eric -- Ed]
Perhaps in the end the free-software culture will triumph not
because cooperation is morally right or software "hoarding" is
morally wrong (assuming you believe the latter, which neither
Linus nor I do), but simply because the commercial world cannot
win an evolutionary arms race with free-software communities that
can put orders of magnitude more skilled time into a problem.
We know this of course, now the big question is how to open the eyes
of our CEOs and high level managers (we're working on it).
--
Peace, Ariel
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From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
Cc: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 16:47:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199707092347.QAA21705@oz.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19970709234716.jH4ix-vwKQm3rbVWaxE8v7XHnjTfEyzRySaqWs2q5Tc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199707092337.TAA02741@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Jul 9, 97 07:37:30 pm
:
: From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca>
: Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
:
: A friend sent this to me, and I thought it was excellent.
:
:I bet he saw it on the gcc2 developers list... from me ;-)
:
It is an excellent piece. The problem is that many will not
have the patience to read it since it is so long.
My internal "Why Linux/Freeware" web page at SGI has a pointer to
Eric Raymond's treatise (since David pointed it to me for which
I'm grateful).
To make it easier for more people to grasp I use to send
this short excerpt from the last part:
No commercial developer can match the pool of talent the Linux
community can bring to bear on a problem. Very few could afford
even to hire the more than two hundred people who have contributed
to fetchmail! [A freeware program maintained by Eric -- Ed]
Perhaps in the end the free-software culture will triumph not
because cooperation is morally right or software "hoarding" is
morally wrong (assuming you believe the latter, which neither
Linus nor I do), but simply because the commercial world cannot
win an evolutionary arms race with free-software communities that
can put orders of magnitude more skilled time into a problem.
We know this of course, now the big question is how to open the eyes
of our CEOs and high level managers (we're working on it).
--
Peace, Ariel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-07-09 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-09 23:24 The Cathedral and the Bazaar Mike Shaver
1997-07-09 23:37 ` David S. Miller
1997-07-09 23:47 ` Ariel Faigon [this message]
1997-07-09 23:47 ` Ariel Faigon
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