Re: [9fans] licence question

[Wes Kussmaul <wes@ReliableID.com>]

On 2/1/22 17:47, hiro wrote:
>> I believe that David is right that it was a combination of running on
>> really low-end hardware (in the early days, Torvalds accepted patches for
>> just about anything), and a similarly low barrier to entry (others
>> elsewhere have quipped about having to appease, "the Gods of BSD" to get
>> anything into those systems) and the AT&T lawsuit, which was at best
>> misguided but scared people off of BSD.
> I always explain it the following way to the non-techies:
>
> You've heard of the appstore and how everybody wants to replicate
> apple's "business model" behind it.
>
> Well, it turns out they didn't come up with it.
> The true inventor was Linus Torvalds.
>
> Linux is an "appstore" for bad driver software. Maybe the first time
> in human civilization where something so broken by design has become
> the core underlying business plan  and gained so much interest to
> succeed at such scale and against all rationality.
>
> Apple had it all easy after this proof of concept. They sold half-ripe
> hardware, with nearly none of the potential exploited by software, and
> relied on mostly unvetted third-party submissions to fix that in
> "apps". Worked for GNU/LINUX, makes apple rich, too.


Hiro, you have absolutely hit the nail on the head.

So, how do you add rationality and reliability to the 
dpkg-app/play-store idea?

Answer: emulate the ways this has been done for centuries in the 
physical world.


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