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Drew Eckhardt
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Drew Eckhardt : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
For some, Linux represented the on-ramp to a life of
hacking on the open- source operating system. For others, Linux
represented a momentary opportunity to explore interesting, non-trivial
software development work. It was in this latter group that Drew
Eckhardt found himself as an 18-year- old CS student at the University
of Colorado. Like other Linux hackers, Drew was not satisfied with Bill
Jolitz's BSD work, and the attraction to a freely redistributable UNIX
system proved irresistible. He told me,
I wanted to run some free UNIX on my hardware. Since I didn't like what
Bill Jolitz was doing, that meant Linux.
Drew's first problems with his new Linux system led to his first
contribution to Linux development. ``I was too impatient to wait for
someone to fix these problems (boot blocks that didn't work, disk driver
problems), and solutions ... weren't too difficult,'' he says. ``Farther
on, I continued to contribute to the Linux kernel because it was fun.''
Drew spent most of his time as a ``Linux developer'' working on the SCSI
subsystem. But he is no longer involved in the development end of Linux.
``Developing for the Linux kernel and user lands would be too close to
what I do at work,'' he says. The little UNIX hacking Drew has done on
his own recently has tended to be FreeBSD.
While Drew emphasizes that the size of the Linux community of hackers
was one of the best things about it, he doesn't think there is anything
too revolutionary about the way Linux was developed. He suggests,
In hindsight, the development effort wasn't too different from
commercial environments where developers hide in their offices, work on
some subsystem and release the code as certain functions are completed.
Drew may not play much of a role in future Linux development (he is a
software engineer for a company that builds digital video servers for
broadcast and post-production). But his thoughts on the future of
proprietary software vs. open-source systems do reveal a future for
Linux. He says,
In niche markets, we'll always have proprietary software because those
markets can't or won't fund new products, and software companies can't
guarantee they'll sell the support needed to pay for development after
the fact. In the general consumer market, its days may be numbered ...
buying shrink-wrapped proprietary software is a bit silly when you can
get the same software on a CD-Recordable for a dollar.
Drew Eckhardt's e-mail address is
drew@poohsticks.org.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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