Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus Torvalds

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 22, 2008 7:20 AM EDT
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After years of watching the software industry twist itself in knots trying to differentiate “open” vs. “free” and having to re-invent code simply because it had the wrong comments at the top, I think it’s time to put an end to the madness. This promoted me to write the following letter to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.

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and what was Linus' reply? tuxchick 3 1,396 Jan 22, 2008 8:55 AM

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