Linus Torvalds objasnjava razloge zasto je Larry odlucio napustiti open-sorssasku zajednicu (brod koji tone). Evo tih razloga:
Larry is perfectly fine with somebody writing a free replacement. He's told me so, and I believe him, because I actually do believe that he has a strong moral back-bone.
What Larry is not fine with, is somebody writing a free replacement by just reverse-engineering what _he_ did.
Larry has a very clear moral standpoint: "You can compete with me, but you can't do so by riding on my coat-tails. Solve the problems on your own, and compete honestly. Don't compete by looking at my solution!!!!!!!!"
And that is what the BK license boils down to. It says: "Get off my coat-tails, you free-loader!". And I can't really argue against that.
Uglavnom, opensorsasu Larryu nisu svih ovih godina smetale bezbrojne kradje i reverse-engineering brojnog proprietary softvera od strane open-source komjunitija!
Ne lezi vraze, to mu je zasmetalo tek onda kada su doticni "uglednici" odlucili malo "revers enginjirati" njegov osobni projekt u koje je on ulozio godine truda i vezan je za njega emocionalno i svakako drugacije!
Tako je Larry: prokazi njihove kradljive metode svima u svijetu! Reci cijelom svijetu kako su te ti "postenjaci" i "moralne vertikale" pokusale pokrasti! Idi i reci im sto ih ide!!!!!!!!!
Post je objavljen 28.05.2005. u 12:59 sati.