Re: UDI and Politics (was Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.)

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:44:02 -0400


Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>:
> ---Or possibly ESR's
> take on the free software/open source economy being based on ego is doing us
> a disservice here: they think that the egoboo from being *the* device
> driver writers for the Unix world is sufficient payment. (I lean toward it
> being more of a services-based economy at this point. Sorry, Eric.)

No offense taken; I'd considered this possibility myself. We'll just have
to make it clear that we won't let ourselves be used.

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