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Re: OT Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?



I also saw the article and there were a quite a few thinsg that
irretated me:

* Dudi Goldman does not seem to understand that all that Linux is
  doing, has been doing, and will be doing is kernel work. We all
  take it quite leasurly that the whole system is being called Linux
  and we know that it is just the kernel and not the windowing 
  system, the desktop manager, the networking protocols, etc. We
  also know that replacing the Linux kernel with something else,
  e.g. NetBSD will create a system that looks and behaves the same
  to the casual non-technical writer. Therefore it is quite annoying
  when Goldman presents it as if Linux is the only player in town.
  He doesn't even mention the abbreviation GNU in the article, though
  he got the stuff about Richard Stalman and his manifesto right.
  I thought of the allegory to explain to the non-techical what Linux
  really means:

     Linux is like the government. It decides where the resources
     are passed in the country (the system). Even if you replace the
     government (the kernel) and replace it with another government
     the country will almost look and behave the same.

* I was wondering what "Hebrew support for Linux" from IBM means. 
  Again, this expression makes as much sense as saying that 
  the Intel Processors support Hebrew. It is just another result of
  the brain wash M$ has been doing trying to extinguish the border
  between OS and user programs.
  
* About Torvalds comments - being from Scandinavia, I am not surprised
  at all about them. They all fit the "Why cannot everyone in the 
  world get along just like we do?" attitude. Imo, Torvalds should just just
  stick to technical issues that he is good at, just like we should do.

Regards,
Dov

  
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:56:28PM +0200, guy keren wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Hebrew & Linux from IBM?":
> > > As usual mr. Dudi Goldman made some mistakes
> > >
> > > 2. Contrary to the belief - you CAN charge money for a GPL application
> > > (provided that it comes with the source, and for a "reasonable amount"). Of
> > > course you can once you got the software to copy it to the whole world, but
> > > the main point is that you can charge for an application...
> >
> > Yes. This is such a huge point that he got wrong, that I couldn't take
> > anything else he wrote after that seriously...
> 
> hei, its dudi goldman - you don't need to find a mistake in the article in
> order to NOT take anything he writes seriously ;)
> 
> --
> guy
> 
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>  or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
> 
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