13.04.2013 Views

faif-2.0

faif-2.0

faif-2.0

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

158 ENDNOTES<br />

fork, titled, “The Lemacs/FSFmacs Schism.”, at http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.<br />

html. Stallman’s response to those accusations is in http://stallman.org/articles/<br />

xemacs.origin.<br />

9Debian Buzz in June 1996 contained non-free Netscape 3.01 in its Contrib<br />

section.<br />

10Young uses the term “public domain” loosely here. Strictly speaking, it means<br />

“not copyrighted.” Code released under the GNU GPL cannot be in the public<br />

domain, since it must be copyrighted in order for the GNU GPL to apply.<br />

11This quote is taken from the much-publicized Torvalds-Tanenbaum “flame<br />

war” following the initial release of Linux. In the process of defending his choice of<br />

a nonportable monolithic kernel design, Torvalds says he started working on Linux<br />

as a way to learn more about his new 386 PC. “If the GNU kernel had been ready<br />

last spring, I’d not have bothered to even start my project.” See Chris DiBona et<br />

al., Open Sources (O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1999): 224.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!