[lug] Linus's response to Mundie

[Kirk Rafferty]

You'll be happier with Alan Cox's reply then.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-04-006-20-PS

At the risk of being sacrilegious, I think Linus blew it.  His response,
while filled with a couple good one-liners and quotes, sounded to me like
the jealous inventor lashing out at anyone who dares to criticise his
brainchild (yeah, I know he didn't invent the GPL, OSS, etc).  Linus went
on the the defensive, when he should have taken the opportunity to shoot
down, point by point, Mundie's FUD.  After all, Linus Torvalds has nothing
to be defensive about.  I hate to say it, but Linus Torvalds isn't the best
spokesperson for Linux.

(hey, you're not archiving this, are you? :-)

-k

--- "Scott A. Herod" <herod at interact-tv.com> wrote:
> Unlike most of the slashdotters, I was disappointed
> with Linus's
> comments in response Mundie's speach.  While I agree
> with almost
> everything that he or ESR said about MS's FUD, I've
> yet to see
> someone effectively address the issues that Mundie
> raises, namely
> how does a corporation make money for its owners
> (stockholders)
> while pursuing an open source software policy. 
> Which stock would
> you rather your mother have her retirement tied up
> in, Microsoft's
> or one of the Linux distro. supplier's?
> 
> I am not saying that it is not possible to make a
> business model
> that succeeds while remaining true to the ideals of
> OSS, only that
> I think that the rebuttals to Mundie need to address
> this issue.