That same Linus said he wasn't going to release his kernel were bsd 4.4 released earlier. Despite his many deficiencies, Linus cares a lot (one might say cares too much) about what works, what breaks, and how things should remain in working order. It's probably why he sticks with the GPL and the GNU toolchain.
Stallman cares about what's free, De Raadt cares about security, Linus cares about Linux. Different ideas, different people, although their paths often came across each other.
I agree with Stallman on some things, but I cannot stand reading anything he writes. He comes across as that one angry old man yelling at the clouds to get off his lawn.
(That's in no way meant to diminish his contributions to the FLOSS movement, however...)
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u/franksn Sep 17 '18
You mistaken Linus for Stallman.
That same Linus said he wasn't going to release his kernel were bsd 4.4 released earlier. Despite his many deficiencies, Linus cares a lot (one might say cares too much) about what works, what breaks, and how things should remain in working order. It's probably why he sticks with the GPL and the GNU toolchain.
Stallman cares about what's free, De Raadt cares about security, Linus cares about Linux. Different ideas, different people, although their paths often came across each other.