Re: when companies join over free software projects

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> In an almost amusingly different example, in the days of gcc-2.8 and
> EGCS, RMS insisted that Kenner continue maintaining GCC even though
> all GCC contributors said that things should be done differently.
> They ended up starting EGCS, which RMS did not like at first, but it
> thrived because he did not manage it.  He ended up liking it and
> approving of it, and now EGCS has become the official GCC again.  I
> contend that he should have let the hackers choose, and not made a
> management intervention into the fate of gcc-2.8.

In free software these things are self correcting, or have been so far.

gtk_html is a correction caused by the lateness of Mozilla for example

Alan