Linus Torvalds- VC Money is Good for Open Source 31
jpheasant writes "Open Source startups are clearly the hottest thing in Silicon Valley right now, with every VC wanting to invest in an open source player. Linus Torvalds finally speaks up about this."
This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.
The first sentence and they've already lost it (Score:4, Insightful)
If open source were a religion, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish engineer who wrote the core of the operating system that would become Linux, would be its prophet.
RMS? Hello?
Dude... (Score:4, Funny)
Actually... (Score:2)
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I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
Re:The first sentence and they've already lost it (Score:5, Informative)
Stallman wants nothing to do with open source, he's concerned with Free Software.
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RMS is one of the few who can be what he want's. If he want to snort a spaghetti through his nose on some IT-manager-who-invited-the-man-banket.. he does it... and everyone will clap into their sweaty hands.. because RMS is the man.. and he doesn't NEED to use buzzwords.. they know that too... because he's the dude.. the man...
I use the GPL.
You're the one who 'lost it' (Score:2)
Free software != open source (Score:3, Insightful)
RMS is the prophet of free software, not open source. The goals are different, even if the methods are much the same.
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Linus did not abandon BK because of his issues with it. He abandoned it because he was tired of fighting with zealots over what was primarily a personal choice. Linus never required a kernel developer to adopt BK. In fact, Alan Cox never used it, even when he was in Morton's position of the stable release maintainer.
Re:Bitkeeper. (Score:5, Insightful)
The people who objected to the use of Bitkeeper were proved right all along, on purely practical grounds; it's absolutely foolish for you to depend on software which can be pulled away from you at the whim of one person or one company. If I was a builder, there's no way on earth I'd use bricks, or tools, that would turn to dust if if the manufacturer decides to press a red button on the CEO's desk. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. Software is no different.
What you called 'zealots' here are really pragmatists.
Linus Torvalds is the Mel Gibson of Open Source (Score:1)
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Ten years ago, Linus could be counted on to say something reasonable, diplomatic and humble in any controversy. Over the last ten years, he has started to develop the kind of verbal swagger that to software engineers is what slurred syllables are to the prize fighter.
One can only imagine the corrosive effects on the brai
VC Money (Score:1)
When you become certain that what you have is scalable and it will suffer from not having the cash to accomplish documentation, marketing and staffing commensurate with the demand, then go for it. Folks on the East Coast might want to talk with Mike Roer http://www.cvg.org/asp/cont [cvg.org]
VC = Vietcong ? (Score:1)
of course, it's Venture Capital(ist) in case you were wondering
Torvalds is a communist!! (Score:2, Funny)
(I'm kidding... no, really... please mod +1 Funny)
Heh, no joke (Score:2)
Money for prototype? (Score:1)