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To: pgerassi who wrote (108819)	5/1/2000 12:39:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1571172

Pete, My arguement with Red Hat is, that I'm sure a lot of people that worked very hard to making the core of Linux as good as it is, are either (a) pissed off (b) feeling left out. Red Hat is rolling in money, but the people that did the REAL work aren't seeing a dime in many cases. This is just wrong, and I believe it will be a long-term determent to open source as it now exists. Open Source needs a new license. The GPL just doesn't cut it. Programmers have to be alive to code, and to be alive they have to eat, and until they open source food, something has to give. I'm also (off topic as hell) worried about fragmentation in the Linux community, much like what happened with Unix. You are already starting to see it, with things like libc vs. glibc, etc. And it is getting worse. Linux Mandrake installs a different mailer by default than Red Hat does. Not a big issue, but these minor difference grow over time. At least with one company controlling the all the products, there is a 'psuedo' standard which emerges. I personally hate having to link all my linux apps twice (libc and glibc). It doesn't help that glibc 2.1.2 doesn't work with glibc 2.1.0 binaries half the time, etc. These are the reasons why Linux (among others) hasn't been able to take control from Windows. Regards, Steve