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[Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] Now that we all agree (no one in 65 posts has managed to come up with any reasons for Linux other than intellectual property ownership transfer from AT&T to other parties), you can argue all day whether that transfer was reason enough to do Linux, whether it was a good idea or a bad idea, whether this was just another stupid civil war within the movement, whether the time spent on that could have been spent on other things that would have had a far greater benefit to the same community, whether the intellectual property transfer had any real effect, what the real costs were of that intellectual property transfer, whether we have ended up in a more open or less open situation, whether GNU’s or Red Hat’s or any other “open” player’s stewardship of the resultant intellectual property was better or worse than AT&T’s, whether the time spent on this effort was indeed a distraction that enabled Windows to get traction, whether the psychological and educational effects of generations of programmers working hard to copy old things helped foster innovation or stifled it, well….
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[Comments for James Fee GIS Blog] Comment on Open Thread by Dimitri: While the UNIX guys were fighting endless civil wars about Berkleyisms and SUNisms and AT&Tisms and feeling proud about cobbling up impenetrable shell scripts as a way of managing the OS and coming up with endlessly new ways of preventing developers from creating shrink-wrapped applications that could be sold in any sort of volume, Microsoft used what started as a much inferior technical core to nonetheless be far more responsive to mainstream, mass-market needs. Over time they improved their infrastructure so that it was no longer shamefully worse than UNIX and, in some cases like Visual Studio, better than what could be found in UNIX.
[The ENTCHEV GIS Blog] All Bikes Weigh The Same: “A good example is Linux, which has to my mind been an appalling waste of a generation or two of programmers in a narcissistic effort to re-engineer an operating system that was already grossly obsolete in the late 1980s, with no greater point, apparently, than substituting some private intellectual property ownership of some core parts of the model OS upon which it is based from AT&T's ownership into Red Hat ownership. Linux now is much more expensive than UNIX was.”
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