Comments on: Freedom and the Fallacy of Market Share http://techrights.org/2009/09/30/freedom-and-real-goals/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/09/30/freedom-and-real-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-73719 David Gerard Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:12:54 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19205#comment-73719 What's happening with X now is that the proprietary vendors are going back to the Xorg mainline, e.g. Sun (Alan Coopersmith from Sun is one of the main X devs, OpenSolaris uses Xorg rather than Xsun) and Apple (X11.app is a polished snapshot of Xquartz, which is finally compiling cleanly from Xorg)! In that case, Xorg got people onside by being the place to be, the place where the development was happening, rather than by being copyleft. That said, copyleft may well have accelerated the process. What’s happening with X now is that the proprietary vendors are going back to the Xorg mainline, e.g. Sun (Alan Coopersmith from Sun is one of the main X devs, OpenSolaris uses Xorg rather than Xsun) and Apple (X11.app is a polished snapshot of Xquartz, which is finally compiling cleanly from Xorg)!

In that case, Xorg got people onside by being the place to be, the place where the development was happening, rather than by being copyleft.

That said, copyleft may well have accelerated the process.

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/30/freedom-and-real-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-73716 Yuhong Bao Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:28 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19205#comment-73716 Another classic example is the X Window System, which was not copyleft, thus most Unix vendors bundling them made it proprietary. Why? You guessed it, popularity Another classic example is the X Window System, which was not copyleft, thus most Unix vendors bundling them made it proprietary. Why? You guessed it, popularity

]]> By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/09/30/freedom-and-real-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-73715 Yuhong Bao Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:48:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=19205#comment-73715 "To make so many compromises is to end up with another Mac OS X" Well, note that Mac OS X has most of the GUI being completely proprietary software. Anyone remember Darwin? That was Mac OS X with the proprietary GUI completely stripped. I remember GNU-Darwin, which was a distro of Darwin that do not rely on the proprietary GUI. “To make so many compromises is to end up with another Mac OS X”
Well, note that Mac OS X has most of the GUI being completely proprietary software. Anyone remember Darwin? That was Mac OS X with the proprietary GUI completely stripped. I remember GNU-Darwin, which was a distro of Darwin that do not rely on the proprietary GUI.

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