Is it possible/impossible to develop proprietary software to run on linux?

[Armijn Hemel]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:24 +0200, paolo del bene wrote:
> > The same reason people build non-free cars, sell non-free food, and
> > wear non-free clothes Paolo.  Its my job...  :)
> >
> > And I know its a heated argument out there but i don't think its
> > GNU/linux, its just linux.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > chris
> >
> 
> I am sorry for you, but GNU/linux is the operating system, linux is
> only a
> kernel, i think to start to write a book about kernel, microkernel,
> who
> partecipate to the develop, where, why and who is taking advantages
> with the
> old microkernels....

I am sorry for you, but a lot of embedded systems don't use things from
the GNU project, like uClibc (not a part of GNU), busybox (not a part of
GNU) and so on.

And this has nothing to do with licensing anymore, so let's stop this
discussion here, hmkay? 

armijn

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