Re: [Israel.pm] Mission Statement for a New Company based on Voluntarism-taken-to-Extreme

On Friday 13 April 2007 10:52:19 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Are you kidding? Linus had a huge effect. A lot of what he says has been
> very influential. He's often being quoted. He is a wonderful humourist and
> has provided a lot of balance to free software by not holding the radical
> opinions that RMS does. And he projected the project of writing the Linux
> kernel which is currently the most advanced open-source kernel and the one
> used by the most popular free software OS.
>
> From reading Linus, I think he's both extremely intelligent and extremely
> wise. RMS, OTOH is very idealistic, very stubborn and completely unable to
> distiniguish between the two. I often found value in what RMS said, but I
> believe I usually agree with what Linus or other people like Tim O'Reilly
> say more.

Don't confuse implementation and design :). To the best of my knowledge, linus 
may have implemented many ideas in FOSS but did not invent those ideas. His 
influence thus, is more of spreading the word instead of inventing the word, 
which is what RMS did/does. Even now, i hear that for GPLv3 he had more 
reservations than any ideas.

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