[sllug-members]: Pioneer day: Most important/influential OpenSource Pioneers???

[Stuart Jansen]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:46 -0600, Jeremy Smith wrote:
> William H. Gates: for providing a "great Satan" for the open source to 
> movement to love to hate.  (Would there have been a Linux/OSS movement if 
> the "enemy" was Bill Joy or Jean-Louis Gassee?)

Yes. Microsoft earned the hated of many by stifling innovation and
abusing customers, but if Microsoft hadn't done it someone else would
have. Imagine what Unix would have been like if AT&T hadn't been
muzzled. Imagine what Oracle as the primary mover and shaker would be
like. Simply put, corporatism would have created something similar to
Microsoft and something similar to Linux/OSS would have become
necessary.

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
                           google talk:   stuart.jansen at gmail.com

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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