[odf-discuss] Gnome Foundation and ECMA

[Daniel Carrera]

Inge wrote:
> I think you give Stallman way too little credit here.  The reason FOSS took 
> off with Linux is simply that the Linux kernel was the last missing piece in 
> the full free system.  All the other pieces were already there, not few of 
> them provided by RMS and the FSF.

Certainly, but those are coding contributions. I did not say "RMS didn't do much". I said that his coding contribution exceeds his marketing contribution. As for the example of Linux, note that the biggest marketing event I listed (Netscape's announcement) has nothing to do with Linux.

Daniel.