[CS-FSLUG] LINUX COMMUNITY WANTS MORE SAY IN OS DIRECTION

[N. Thompson]

Web site layout is terrible in Konqueror (MDK 10.0).

As for Sun they don't have much in the way of a case here yet, they didn't 
give any examples of the unhappy companies they were talking about and were 
very general in their statements. Besides that history shows that almost 
every time a company gets its hand on something it begins either gradually or 
abruptly corrupting that thing, Sun's trying to shift control of Linux away 
from Linus is a selfish thing to do since first off its Linus' hard work 
along with the hard work of several contributors who knew who was going to be 
receiving their work and secondly because chances are if code was rejected 
there was questionable licensing behind it in which case companies Like 
RedHat would have likely removed it anyway. If Sun is really that upset that 
they don't have as much control as they want they can always fork the Linux 
kernel, or if they want do like Apple and use something based off BSD 
instead.

On November 22, 2004 04:10 pm, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> LINUX COMMUNITY WANTS MORE SAY IN OS DIRECTION
>
> Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz said last week that all is
> not perfect with Linux these days. Schwartz said there are companies
> unhappy with Linus Torvalds being the gatekeeper deciding what
> components are added to mainstream Linux, and that a more "open"
> approach is necessary.
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/story/47164.htm