[XCSSA] Logo changes.. for the Stallman Lecture

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

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> Maybe he could call it the HERD.

Yeah, that's what it was called, or actually Hurd.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1847210

Not easy to find out about it anymore, even on the Gnu website, Gnu/ 
Linux reigns.

Obviously Linus had the advantage of being first.  Gnu was dragging  
getting all the most sophisticated technology into their kernel from  
the outset.  But because Linux, which started as a vacation  
experiment, got started first (based on the simple ideas in Minix,  
with whatever else Linus had to add to just to get it working on  
x86), right after that he had the benefit of legions of helpers all  
over the world.  Then, linux had unstoppable momentum compared to  
other free OS development efforts.

In things like software, being first and almost good enough is  
usually how you win, unless you have tons of money like Micro$oft and  
can make up time later, buyout competitors and/or crush them into the  
dirt with marketing and distribution monopolies.

If Stallman's goal was to rule the world, he failed because of his  
strategy.  Sometimes, doing things "the right way" is not the right  
way.  But that wasn't his goal.  His goal was to have a free OS free  
of copyright privileges.  So, he suceeded.

I feel comfortable and even respectable saying Gnu/Linux.  But I  
don't usually.  I think Stallman deserves it.  But I'm not exactly  
his PR agent either.

Charles



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