From: rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk
Message-Id: <200102170010.f1H0Aqa26773@xyzzy.clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux stifles innovation...
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:10:52 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jesse@cats-chateau.net, A.J.Scott@casdn.neu.edu,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010216170349.01efc030@mail.etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Feb 16, 2001 11:37:39 
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Dennis wrote:
...
> objective, arent we?
Nope. Are you claiming to be?

> For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet 
> drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps 
... Rant deleted

I had a problem with eepro100.
It was fixed same night cause I had the source.
Don't even try to compare with MickyS**t.

> The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to 
> bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about 
> "sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source" solutions even 
> when they are wholly inferior. You're only hurting yourselves in the long 
> run. In that respect MS is correct, because those with the dollars to 
> innovate will stay away.

When companys with less than a dozen people think it's worth while paying
someone like me to develop code exclusivly for Linux we've got to have a
chance. Source to binary ratio is probably 70/30 mainly because of code
tied up in previous companys but they are trying.

The project they're funding now is more like 90% GPL. Of course I could be
producing crap code. 20 years kernel hacking and a cybernetics degree can't
mean as much as being an MSCE.


ps. This is definately a message from home and a bottom of a glass of whisky.
-- 
	Bob Dunlop	rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk
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