[dvlug] Where does Linux come from?

[Grant Bowman]

An interesting discussion evolved on the felton lug mail list. Here is the
contribution I offered last week.

Grant
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From: "Grant Bowman" <grantbow at ubuntu.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2012 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Felton LUG] Mom, where does Linux come from?
To: <felton-lug at googlegroups.com>

Hello Peter and Larry,

Thank you very much for the original link introducing the Linux
Foundation video downloaded from youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

On all my Android devices I load not only the Google Market/Play Store
but also the Amazon Appstore and FDroid.

I recommend listening to the video of Bruce Perens sitting next to RMS
speaking about the economics of open source. "The first key intuition
that you need about open source economics is that 95% or more of the
sofware in your business, whatever it is, is non-differentiating
software."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens

According to Jonathan Heidt it seems open source software contributors
are a collaborative group that are an evolutionary development as
described in this TED video. Free riders that I think you are speaking
of will lose in the long term.


http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_to_self_transcendence.html

Cheers,

Grant


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a bit about the case of Android:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29
>
> Clearly the Android kernel has forked off from the main Linux kernel,
> but there is some intention to fold this back into the main kernel
> sources. Clearly there are difficulties, due to insufficient human
> resources, but as Linus Torvalds states, there is likely to be done
> eventually.
>
> "The [X86 Android] compatibility program is also optional and free of
> charge, with the Compatibility Test Suite also free and open-source.
>
> That's all *I* know - others may have more information and knowledge
> about the situation.
>
> Peter
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And that includes a lot of stuff that doesn't say "Linux" on the front
>>> cover. Like all those phones.
>>
>> And how much of that "stuff" portrayed itself as a "community" working
>> toward the common good of FOSS, only to take the code and run, so to
>> speak?
>>
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