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Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, was Why open source software is bet


From: Aaron Kulkis
Subject: Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, was Why open source software is better
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:06:37 -0500

Edward Rosten wrote:
> 
> >>He seems to have a real chip on his shoulder about Linux. He goes out of
> >>his way to call Linux GNU/Linux (technically correct) and adds that the
> >>majority of code in Linux is GNU (again correct). This is not the first
> >>time I have seen him do this. The fact that 99% of the computer literate
> >>society regard Linux incorrectly as Linus's baby must really bug him.
> >
> > Indeed. Personally, if the GNU OS was finished in 1991 when Linux first
> > hit the street, why the hell did it take until 2000 to complete? That
> > makes it even more vaporous than any M$ product.
> 
> It didn't take until 2000 to hit the street. Slackware started selling it
> in 1993 IIRC and it was avaliable for download before then.
> 
> 
> > I agree with Linus's take on that: "The midwife doesn't get to name the
> > baby." The system is Linux, dammit, and RMS is trying to hog some of the
> > fame that Linus rightfully deserves.
> 
> Well, I disagree. Without GNU, Linux would be nowhere. A kernel on its
> own is not an operating system. How do you think Linux suddenly went from
> baing a kernel to an operating system? It did that because 90% of the
> operating system had already been written by GNU. All the components are
> essential. Claiming that one is somehow more deserving than the others is
> silly.


Most important of all was the existance of GCC.

> 
> -Ed
> 
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J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
   The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
   also known as old hags who've hit the wall....

I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
   challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
   between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
   Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole

H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
    premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
    you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
    you are lazy, stupid people"

G:  Knackos...you're a retard.


F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
   adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.

E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
   her behavior improves.

D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
   ...despite (C) above.
 
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.

B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
   method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
   direction that she doesn't like.

A:  The wise man is mocked by fools.



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