2 Sep
2012
2 Sep
'12
6:59 a.m.
On 9/1/12 9:50 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
X.org isn't a Linux thing any more, either - it
also runs on the BSDs
and Solaris and probably other Unices too.
X.org, nee XFree86, never was a Linux thing, any more than GNU. Like
the GNU environment, it started as a cross-platform Free implementation
of commercial unix tools. As far as I know or can remember, neither
X.org or XFree86 ever existed as a Linux-only implementation.
If in another decade people still have control of
their own computers
and can do whatever they want with them and the data on them, it will
be because of RMS and nobody else.
And frankly, for all that he can be ornery or whatever, at the end of
the day, the world could not thank him enough for that. People have
won Nobel prizes for a lot less.
I won't argue that at all. As a matter of fact, I may have *said*
all that a time or 20...
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