Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues

[Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>]

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Greg, Linus,

Putting all the enforcement issues aside, there is one sentence that
struck me:

> > And corporations are a _huge_ part of our community, and frankly,
> > the only reason we are where we are today.

I don't question the first part of the sentence, but I disagree to
'the only reason' in the second part.

The reason where we are today is the result of _all people_ contributing
to Linux. I think our community is a lively mixture of particitpants
hacking because of commercial, technical, enthusiastic, ideological and
what not reasons. The beauty (and the challenge) is all of us working
together. IMO this is one very important part which attracts some of the
special talent which makes our community awesome. For me, it surely did.
And that talent usually can't be attracted by, say, large investments or
similar (which admittedly attracts other special talent and is OK, too).

So, I don't think it is fair to give credits "where we are today" _only_
to the commercial side. And I have a hard time believing this view is
fundamentally different from yours?

   Wolfram


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