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... one guy putting his name on the thing, which is completely against the idea of a community of developers. It's Linus' name on the kernel, but it's not all his work.

I would argue that Stallman is not a pure idealist by any definition of the word. Check out http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html to see just how much he hates Linus getting all the credit. This is pure ego, and has nothing to do with "the cause" but rather with "the credit."

Nothing I said implied that any programmer would be free of responsibility. What I said is that ideas would be judged on their merit only, not on whose mouth the idea came out of, and where that person sits in the Linux kernel project social hierarchy.

Again, the current system is efficient, and clearly it works, but it is far from the ideological wonderland that the FOSS movements appears to stand for.

Posted by: dkawalec   Posted on: 08/18/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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