| > The kernel community as a whole very much has little interest into the philosophical arguments surrounding open source because they didn't have to. someone already established that it was the foundation, people like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Maddog Hall and many (not too many, actually) others. The "community" for the longest time has been a bunch of people "is a small and well-defined group: Linus, Maddog Hall, Alan Cox, and somewhere between 6 and 12 others (varying at times)." (Steven Suson, 1999) "Watch the linux-kernel mailing list. The "Inner Circle" becomes very obvious. People go in and out of the Circle, so a list probably isn't possible [...] I would say it includes may be 2 dozen people." (Eric Princen, 1999) > It’s not intentionally done to promote GCC on ideological ground, something pretty much no one cares about in the kernel community. again: you're talking at the present, I am talking about the first two decades you may have forgotten about it, I did not. |