Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:26:06 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (Fwd) [S.u.S.E. Linux] The Gospel according to a Hacker Message-ID: <980615222606.ZM3131@darkstar.connect.com>
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Here it is friends and neighbors, at last the gospel, the good news for one and
all. Even perhaps some flame material.
Frank
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:11:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jim Hatridge <hatridge@straubing.baynet.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu, suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] The Gospel according to a Hacker
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The Gospel according to a Hacker
In the beginning there was the C, and the C was with Ritchie,
and the C was UNIX. The same was in the beginning with Kernighan and
Ritchie; and the UNIX shineth in darkness, and the DOS comprehendeth
it not.
There was a man sent from MIT, whose name was Stallman. The
same came for a witness, to bear witness of the GNU. He said, "I am
the voice of one crying in the wilderness, `make straight the path of
the GNU,' as saith the EMACS."
The next day Stallman seeth Linus coming unto him, and saith,
"Behold the kernel of the GNU, which taketh away the price of the
software." And Stallman bare record, saying, "I saw the Linux
descending upon Linus from C like a penguin."
And Linus said,
"Blessed be the eight-char tab,
"and blessed be the 24-line screen,
"and blessed be the broken-up function.
"Be compatible with those who are incompatible with you,
"and emulate those who ignore your API."
For Stallman so loved the GNU, that he he gave his only written
software, the EMACS, that all through it might be freed.
And Linus wrote an OS, even the 0.99 version, and the 1.x
version, and the 2.x version. And behold, Linux ran Emacs, and
Netscape, and Motif. But the disciples of Linus wished all to be free
like the EMACS, and wrote Lesstif, and Wine, and GIMP.
And as he gave his disciples bits of Wine and bits of DOS, they
asked, "What will happen to BSD?" And Linus said, "The BSD people
should have added these features a long time ago. Now mabey they will."
And he who addeth or fixeth shall be glorified as a great
hacker. Be it ever so done, in the name of UNIX, Amen.
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