On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:15, Sean wrote: > That opinion doesn't hold up to scrutiny, Linux has succeeded to the > measure it has today because of its license and the fact that it > encourages developers to contribute to projects they don't own. That line of argument would hold up to scrutiny if GNU/HURD had more than about 25 actual users. And if there were no developer interest in Linux before it was GPL'd.