From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266648AbUJIJuW (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 05:50:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266627AbUJIJuW (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 05:50:22 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:40714 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266648AbUJIJuS (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 05:50:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4167B458.8070904@superbug.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 10:50:16 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone References: <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <8550FDB8-18AC-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B53F.2060707@drdos.com> <20041008122703.GA15604@elte.hu> <20041008184251.GA28790@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041008184251.GA28790@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I believe the true market value of Linux (the kernel alone) is probably > in the billions of dollars range and that there's one rather big and > agressive company on this planet that would be happy to pay even more > just to make it go away. (But for many of us Linux is like freedom (or > fresh air), with no particular dollar amount attached to it.) > > Ingo To me, the true value of Linux is that there is no company that can take over Linux and End of Life it as a product. For that reason, Linux is the most risk free discision anyone can make. 1) The product will never "End of Life". 2) You don't have to "Request for feature" and wait for the supplier to implement it in their own leasurely time. You can add it yourself or get someone to add if for you in timescales you set. 3) Bugs are fixed faster, as there is a larger amount of developers than any other product.