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Misinterpreting Linux
posted by mpawlo on Friday August 01, @02:31AM
from the should-that-not-be-gnu/linux dept.
Open Source Mr Ian Murdock has published an interesting column at Cnet News.com, claiming that Linux is misunderstood as a phenomenon and should be regarded as a process rather than product. By regarding Linux as a product, the point of having open architecture is missed, Mr Ian Murdock claims.

Mr Murdock states:

'Linux is not a product. Rather, Linux is a collection of software components, individually crafted by thousands of independent hands around the world, with each component changing and evolving on its own independent timetable.'

Read Mr Ian Murdock's column.

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    linux? process? (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 01, @03:25AM (#928)
    As the founder of Debian, I know that Mr. Murdock knows better than this, and that he's not talking to the tech crown on /., but 'linux' is the kernel. the operating system built around that is a distribution, chock full of GNU software. Open-source is a process. not linux. but then, opensource is a cancer... ask ms.
    Commodization of the OS (Score:1)
    by Murphy's Law on Friday August 01, @09:52AM (#932)
    User #174 Info | http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
    The long run tendancy is for markets to turn products into commodities. Suppliers of brand name products try to resist this trend and suppliers of commodities undercut them on price.

    Linux (sorry I refuse to use the stupid GNU/Linux moniker. I don't name Operating Systems after their compiler or utility programs.) is perhaps the first commodity OS to have a chance to unseat a brand name. As time progresses, it will increasingly find itself taking more and more of the market share until it hits a critical mass. It is inevitable.I have discovered a truly marvelous sig, however the sig limit is too small to contain i
    Re: (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 02, @05:26PM (#948)
    Well I'll be damned! So all this time I've been using "Linux" as a noun when I should have been using it as a verb.

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