24 Nov
2004
24 Nov
'04
8:02 a.m.
[oops. severely off topic. aren't I allowed one of these per quarter? :-)]
Doc Shipley wrote:
comes off as pretty even-handed and non-fanatical. People like Bruce
Perens and Eric Raymond get as much credit as Stallman and Torvalds do.
I think that's a shame. I remember the original email Linus sent out
(on usenet) about this "new os".
And I think Stallman is head and shoulders above all of them.
He may be mad, and a total 'PITA', but he's 10x the programmer and
visionary.
And I think he deserves a lot more of the credit for the open source
movement. Stallman was working on open source when Linus was still in
grade school.
-brad