We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom

Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by jacquesm on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:50PM (#11872280)

I'm with you on the facts, but it was anything but a toy. Minix was a toy, linux allowed a whole raft of useful applications to be run on PCs that would have otherwise required a large investment in hardware.

Linux would have succeeded with or without Oracle, and I find it sad that you would try to re-write history to the point where it would seem that without Oracle linux would have remained a toy.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by corysama on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:40PM (#11874148)

> Linux would have succeeded with or without Oracle, and I find it sad that you would try to re-write history to the point where it would seem that without Oracle linux would have remained a toy.

Ehhh... I don't see where he claimed anything about that. I see "Linux was a toy. Oracle helped make it not a toy." But, nothing about what would have happened otherwise. Be careful not to get sad over things not said. Principle of Charity and all that...

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by kazinator on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:49PM (#11874172)

Some circuit board with 64 kilobytes of RAM sent on a mission to Mars can be a "non toy".

Toy: for amusement or education of creator.

Non-toy: implements real requirement for some task.

For instance, 80 bytes of machine code which pop out a piece of bread when it toasts to a certain darkness level: non-toy.

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