Subj : Re: distro
To   : Jagossel
From : Ennev
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 07:50 am

> However, if the developer spends their spare time writing up free or open
> source software, more power to them. Linux is just a kernel that help run
> the GNU software, done by one person, who now runs a corporation dedicated
> to improvimg the kernel. Same thing with FreeDOS and ReactOS. I love
> FreeDOS, and I hope ReactOS can continue to improve and get to the point of
> being stable and really take off.

Well the weird things with open source is that a lot of corporation contribute
to it. Still it's open source and free for the others to use and improve on
it.

Safari and chrome ( midori too ) are powered by Webkit which is open source
yet created by Apple then open sourced. Like the Swift language.

Another big example is Hadoop, being developed by Yahoo it had been given to
Apache. Now companies strive on this (cloudera, horton) and in return also
contribute back to the code.

As long as they respect the GNU or Apache licence I have no problem with
corporations to contribute to the open source world. It's the least they can
do.

It's more sad when we see the reverse with what happened to mysql.

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