Re: we were opensource, once
Re: we were opensource, once
- Subject: Re: we were opensource, once
- From: Gary <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:03:04 -0700
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Have you contacted any redhat developers about this issue? Under the
terms of the GPL, you have legal access to the patch that fixes this
bug.
I can download their kernel source for any major releases they make. So
that's not the issue, really. I am curious, however, as to why they'd
bother to obfuscate it in bugzilla.
Not sure what you mean by that last statement. If Apple doesn't owe the
open source community anything, then does the community owe apple
anything? Ultimately, like I said, Apple is a cathedral, and I expect
cathedral-like behavior from them. I had hoped, based on experiences
with other OSS vendors, that it would be different. That was all I was
really trying to say.
No, you said it quite well. And I imagine my response to that portion of
the discussion was more to the original poster. Your cathedral example
is a perfect one -- it's an historical analogy mentioned several times
in Steven Levy's Hackers re IBM vs. DEC per their corporate culture. IBM
was more like a priesthood in which their secrets were guarded closely
with an almost religious-like zeal. DEC, on the other hand, invited
feedback and was more friendly to hardware and OS hacking.
-Gary
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