11 Jan
2001
11 Jan
'01
2:45 p.m.
Isn't revisionist history great. :^( Simply put
what a load of BS! GNU's
contribution was gcc. At the time there were some semi-nice GNU utilities,
but they pretty much fit on one floppy! Even GCC was pretty pathetic at
the time. The FACT is GNU wouldn't be where it is today IF it wasn't for
Linux! At that time we were as likely to get our utilities from BSD as we
were from GNU! BTW, 'bash' wasn't the only shell we had either.
Yep, I was just going to jump in and say that very thing. How quickly
people forget other excellent shells like tcsh, too.
BTW, anyone remember just how long it to Stallman to
notice Linux? All
I've ever seen him do for it is cry like a big baby! I'm still not
convinced he's nothing but a Circus act! He should be acknowledging the
fact that GNU (and very likely UNIX) would be a footnote in the history
books if not for Linux!
Richard Stallman is more interested in turning author's rights on their
head. I swear, the man would like to see copyright law burned, shredded and
mangled. I won't use GPL on any of the open source software I write (see
http://httpi.floodgap.com/license.txt for my version) because it irresponsibly
allows people to run with your hard work and make money off it. If I made
it free, I don't want a hacked open source version out there that's raking
in the bucks. As the author, that's *my* right.
OTOH, if I want a secure system I run OpenBSD, and my
Sparc's run Solaris.
I run AIX and NetBSD myself! :-) And, one of these days when I get my
6502-on-6502 virtual CPU implementation done, my C64 will run my own Unixy
flavour too (just to make this on-topic somewhat).
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