[ Thanks to Nicholas Donovan for
this link. ]
“It’s quite possible that Linus Torvalds didn’t realise what he
was starting when he first honed the concept of open source
software into a suggested operating environment called Linux.“If that wording seems obtuse, it’s because of the particular
rigours of discussion about Linux and open-source software in
public. For example, ‘What is Linux?’ would seem a simple question
with a simple answer: it’s an operating system.“But say or write that in public and the open source dogs of war
will descend on you. Linux is a specification, an outline, a
concept, a set of rules, a set of components, or a set of something
else, depending on who you ask.“Solaris is an operating system, Linux isn’t. Red Hat Linux
is–sort of. Should you care? Absolutely not…”