[TriLUG] book for kids on open source philosophy?

[Len Boyle]

Joseph 

Notice this.

The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Red Hat, Inc. Other packages have other copyrights.
 UNIX(r) is a registered trademark of the Open Group in the United States and other countries.

The Cygwin guy  gave a talk at ncsa a few years ago. He worked for Red Hat.



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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] book for kids on open source philosophy?

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Igor Partola wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> I thought I'd throw a movie out there: Revolution OS
> (http://www.revolution-os.com/)

I didn't know about this, although I have seen the speech where RMS says "it's GNU/Linux" and Linus brings his kids out on stage, distracting people from the point that RMS is making. (As a result I changed my .sig - see last line of my .sig below).

What I did see in this movie was the greed associated with the IPOs. Someone did make a lot of money (eg the founders of RedHat who left shortly thereafer), there was a lot of money left on the table (the stock price of VA Linux rose 10x during the first day, meaning that VA Linux only got
1/10 of the available money and the traders got the rest). 
Then not too long afterward VA Linux goes bust and RedHat shares dropped to $2.91 (I think).

I regard these IPOs as a disaster as far as getting FOSS into the mainstream market place.

I didn't understand who Cygnus was (or the "gnu" in Cygnus), so that was news to me. It seems Cygnus hasn't had the ups and downs of VALinux and RedHat.

Joe

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