[LINK] Linux deviation impedes developers

[Glen Turner]

Richard Chirgwin asked:
> What _major_ free software projects are lead by people with seperate
> agenda? How many of these use their software to further their agenda?

James Tizard replied:
> Diverse is the word. A lesson from the Internet is that people who might
> seem close or familiar in some senses can in fact come from a very different
> space indeed...
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/geeks-with-guns/
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/

Diversity is not a free software or Internet phenomenon.

I present EDS and Ross Perot as the best illustration.  I
don't think ESR has yet launched a paramilitary invasion of
Iran to retrieve coders held hostage, nor is RMS about to
run for US President.

So the free software movement has a way to go to catch up to
the wackoness of the commercial sector :-)

Glen