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

On Friday 13 April 2007 21:36:16 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:44:58AM +0300, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So, how many projects have you worked on with Linus? Because from
> where I stand, Linus is a far better designer than implementor, and
> he's a great implementor.

We are referring here to FOSS philosophy, not to coding (either code design or 
code implementation). If there are projects of FOSS philosophy i am not aware 
off, i will take my comments back. Till then...

> > 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.
>
> Same question.

Same answer.


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