From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C551258 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yb0-f171.google.com (mail-yb0-f171.google.com [209.85.213.171]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10CB9230 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 05:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yb0-f171.google.com with SMTP id h3so2727392ybi.2 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 22:35:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Matthew Garrett Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:35:11 -0400 Message-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > What matters are the people - and companies - that actually develop > and contribute code, and make the future happen. Sure. And do you want 4 more enterprise clustering filesystems, or another complete rewrite of the page allocator for a 3% performance improvement under a specific database workload, or do you want a bunch of teenagers who grow up hacking this stuff because it's what powers every device they own? Because honestly I think it's the latter that's helped get you where you are now, and they're not going to be there if the thing that matters to you most is making sure that large companies don't feel threatened rather than making sure that the next 19 year old in a dorm room can actually hack the code on their phone and build something better as a result. It's what brought me here in the first place, and I'm hardly the only one.