RIP: Linux Community (1991-2007)

[Trent Shipley]

On Wednesday 2007-03-28 20:00, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> This is a bit played up, but also grounded with some of the deep
> problems we're facing:
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5306151939.html
>
>
> gNewSense is mentioned briefly in the article, and Brian Brazil the
> founder was recently here at Stammtisch. It's refreshing to know that
> some distros still take "Free" as in speech seriously.
>
> Despite the article being a bit down on Debian, more and more of the
> Debian people are "getting it" about proprietary drivers, blobs, etc.
>
> Freedom is seldom convenient, but it's worth a little inconvenience!

Total freedom means total isolation.

The community nature of GNU/Linux has the ring of an origin myth to it.  
Furthermore, to the extent that that myth is true, Linux is dying of its own 
success.  Linux has become MUCH too valuable to be left to the limited 
resources and self-imposed isolation that characterize pure community driven 
libertyware projects and movements.