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Brendan Conoboy
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Brendan Conoboy
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One of the things that really got a hook in me was the idea that software would be used for tyranny, that the people in charge of the software would then be in charge of me. An old friend, 6, quipped that in the future you would need a license to own a compiler. Free software concepts were thus incredibly appealing. I remember when the US government flirted with regulating cryptography domestically. People on Usenet sold "This shirt is a munition" Ts with #RSA code printed. Clipper was a joke.
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It was in this spirit that #Linux distributions took off and the struggle to keep doing this fun hobby in a way that paid for itself became commonplace. Working at #RedHat, who was making ends meet with CD sales, coffee mugs, and the occasional support contract kept those good times going. When #proprietary #unix, by way of SCO, started getting lawsuit crazy, we found the #GPL really did stand up in court. #Groklaw was born, and IP law became something we all learned thanks to PJ, Webbink, etc.
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In tech years, I'm pretty old. I started using Linux when it was easiest to get as a boot image and root image on the Banjo FTP server, maybe ftp.funet.fi. Later, SLS, then Slackware, then FreeBSD, OpenBSD (co-wrote the IP Filter howto)... then #RedHat bought my company. I've subsequently spent more than half my life working at RH, and most of that time running Fedora, since Fedora was a thing. This is not impressive, I've just been here, and that means I have some perspective on #opensource.
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Way back before Free Software, then Open Source were the phenomenon they have become, it was a very different world. Public domain, shareware, home brew computing... software licensing was alien to hobbyests. We relied on vague ownership concepts that didn't even have standing in international law. The #gpl, #free software, later #oss, this was all part of growing up, the result of many iterations of an attempt to control in some ways while sharing in others.
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You want to talk about abusing the "spirit of the #GPL"? GPLv3 exists *because* of what Novell did with SUSE. #Linux https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/01/linux-20070128/
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