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Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk"

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
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Subject	Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk"
Date	Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:46:43 +0100
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crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> writes:
> On 04/02/2014 05:57 AM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:

[...]

> Then we're back to people needing to eat food and sleep in a warm
> place, that tends to jerk folks around on a short chain.  And back to
> the fact that a lot of good code is buried where "users" never see it,
> what users want is glitz so there's a lot of bad glitz out there.

Harking back to the GPL:

Since 2003, I've worked for a succession of rather small 'proprietary
software companies' which has enabled me to pay my bills but little else
and even this only with constant worries. I'm living in the humble
luxury that I have enough to eat (this wasn't always the case in earlier
times) and can, if I so desire, always spend more money on 'recreational
alcoholic beverages' than I usually consider sensible but that's about
it (minus basic necessities). During the same time, a bunch of people
who are about my age or only a little older on average have become
'insanely rich' (by my modest standards) despite giving all their code
away 'for free' under GPL and that's - frankly - not because they're so
immensely 'talented' while I'm so completely hopeless: I've written my
share of device drivers, have ported some version of Linux to an
hitherto unsupported ARM architecture etc etc etc and all of this code
has at least been used by hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of people
without problems.

Ergo: The GPL in itself is not only not a problem but may actually be
helpful in suitable circumstances.

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  Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-02 04:11 -0600
    Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-02 12:57 +0100
      Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-03 03:15 -0600
        Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-04 16:46 +0100
          Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-05 04:10 -0600
            Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2014-04-05 15:53 +0100
              Re: FOSS and development philosophy; was "Linux O_NONBLOCK bug/ quirk" crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> - 2014-04-06 03:21 -0600

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