Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:07:20 +0000 (GMT)
> So you can see that even if open source in in our opinions inherently
> better, it has not been a viable option for the Windows/DOS platform. UNIX
> users are generally both more capable and comfortable when dealing with
> source code instead of binaries. Unfortunately since they say between
> 80-90% of all computers run the traditionally binary-only platforms, we
> won't see much movement towards open source unless we can either
I disagree most definitely. 90% of the people moving into Linux nowdays
don't make use of the CD of source code. A fair number of them understand
what it is about and why it matters.
Binaries/source is nothing but a packaging issue. If Debian came as a CD
of sources only with nothing but a kernel, libc and gcc/binutils compiled
it wouldn't work either
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