Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] (sorry)

[Nikita Danilov]

Ricardo Galli writes:
 > > Forgive me if I don't mix your theories into my practice.
 > 
 > Take it the other way around: 
 > 
 > Forgive if other people don't want to mix _your_ practices in theirs.
 > 
 > Not everyone wants a "giant software company", not everyone wants to compete 
 > againts the big players, not everyone wants to have employees or earn insane 
 > amounts of money. Furthermore, "giant software houses" are not going to save 
 > the world.
 > 
 > Lot of people think that a free BK _will_ be created sooner or later if it's 
 > needed, with or without Larry McVoy. In the same way TeX was created, or 
 > TCP/IP, or DNS, or smtp, or http/html... all of them were disruptive, very 
 > innovative, free and without any big company or lot of money to do "the real 
 > innovation".
 > 
 > BTW, for some people, ReiserFS is quite innovative, it comes from a small 
 > company doing services, it's free, and it seems that Hans is reasonably happy 
 > :-)

And these examples show that free software can "parasite" on something
else than large company doing a lot of R&D. Government is not exactly a
easy host to kill. :-)

 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 >   ricardo galli       GPG id C8114D34

Nikita.