On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:25:14AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Matthew Krauss wrote: > >Nate Duehr wrote: > >>Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain > >>>system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff > >>>utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to > >>>GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular > >>>application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd > >>>consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top, > >>>epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC, > >>>Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100 > >>>apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>The kernel. > >> > >>Without it, I wouldn't be here. > >> > >>:-) > >> > >>Nate > >Okay, I can top that: The GPL. > > > >:-) twice. > > > >-Matthew > > Nah, if there had been no GPL, Linus would have probably licensed under > the BSD license. (Just a guess there, since that's a fake world that > never existed, but...) > > My assertion: The kernel is more important than the license. Code > trumps license. No code, no need to even use or have a license... > whatever it is. > > Nate
Code without licence tends not to propagate. Linux wasn't the first Unix-compatible one to have been written. It seems to me there was a Unix-compatible kerlen written in the language TURING sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. But it didn't have a free license, and -- well, have any of you ever heard of it? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
