Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2005 10:23 PM
...but despite his considerable abilities, nobody respects him for his practicality. If an ideal can't be used in the real world (a place where few people spend any time, myself included, if I can help it), then there is a chance the ideal isn't ideal.
Free (as in freedom) software is probably the best long-term solution for almost any software problem, but lack of software is never a solution for a software problem. Linus Torvalds chose what he knew was a short-term fix for the problem, and when that fix stopped working he was back where he started, because the free-software community didn't step up and provide a better solution.
Now, Linus is providing his own solution. If you want something done right, you can do it yourself, hire someone else to do it... or tell the free-software community that they are too damn stupid to write software like Bitkeeper.
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Everybody respects RMS for his ideology...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2005 10:23 PMFree (as in freedom) software is probably the best long-term solution for almost any software problem, but lack of software is never a solution for a software problem. Linus Torvalds chose what he knew was a short-term fix for the problem, and when that fix stopped working he was back where he started, because the free-software community didn't step up and provide a better solution.
Now, Linus is providing his own solution. If you want something done right, you can do it yourself, hire someone else to do it... or tell the free-software community that they are too damn stupid to write software like Bitkeeper.
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