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Sepans Plaza: The Early Days
Aug 20, 2003, 04 :00 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (3694 reads)

[ Thanks to Hawkeye for this link. ]

"GNU/Linux being commercialized was a punch in the nose for the community. Mainstream users becoming the majority resulted in a black eye. But the next one is beneath the belt! Propriety software enters the field, and actually becomes part of the success story. Video card drivers from Nvidia aren't GPL, but contributed to the availability of GNU/Linux on the private market. Oracle, Lotus Domino and all the other enterprise applications for Linux are far from Open Source, but gave warp speed to GNU/Linux muscling into the enterprise market.

"The community has turned against those commercial players. The efforts made in the early years to convince others of the benefits of using GNU/Linux, are now put into convincing others to place an embargo on products and services from 'The Evil Ones'. As much as every new user was welcomed for a few years, nowadays new users are bullied away from the sacred grounds..."

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Linux Journal: A Successful Linux/Open-Source Business Model(Jun 17, 2002)
searchEnterpriseLinux.com: Will success spoil Linux?(Mar 06, 2001)
Linux Magazine: The Future of Linux(Jan 27, 2001)


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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
The point of Open Source and Free Softwa ...   Sorry   
David Johnson
Aug 20, 2003, 04:12:46
 
This 'us' vs 'them' ment ...   Baloney   
GreyGeek
Aug 20, 2003, 04:34:18
 
It's true that OSS has grown in popu ...   I don't buy this   
Joe User
Aug 20, 2003, 05:16:12
 
Maybe I had been within too many project ...   0.12?   
E. A. Zen
Aug 20, 2003, 05:54:04
 
My personal take is that corporate invol ...   I have to disagree   
Mister Mr.
Aug 20, 2003, 07:40:42
 
When Linux was commercially irrelevant,  ...   It's the other way round   
Rainer Weikusat
Aug 20, 2003, 08:57:53
 
It appears that nor author know what the ...   Sorry, total BS...   
Peteris Krisjanis
Aug 20, 2003, 10:12:28
 
Newbie shocked by rude manners of some n ...   September coming up again..   
Elmer Fudd
Aug 20, 2003, 10:18:35
 
Those “cli-junkies”, as someone put it,  ...   Reply from the author ;)   
Sepans
Aug 20, 2003, 15:09:43
 
The author of this article has his own a ...   matter of perception   
anthony
Aug 20, 2003, 18:08:46
 
>System administrators, developers, Open ...   This person is wrong on nearly every point   
Jimmy the Geek
Aug 21, 2003, 00:12:08
 
 “It simply isn’t the independent OS any ...   In it for the wrong reasons   
E. A. Zen
Aug 21, 2003, 02:50:25
 
On my statement that the founding of Red ...   Some personal comments on replies at Linuxworld an   
Sepans
Aug 21, 2003, 12:58:51
 
GNU Hurd is all that's left; if he w ...   Re: Some personal comments on replies at Linuxworl   
E. A. Zen
Aug 21, 2003, 18:00:16
 
Whats the point of this stupid article?  ...   dumb article   
phinn
Aug 22, 2003, 00:55:00
 
Very well said Jimmy, i agree with about ...   Re: This person is wrong on nearly every point   
phinn
Aug 22, 2003, 01:04:14
 
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