Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 07:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104160733390.11039-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <3ADA248B.18989.CAFB8@localhost>
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It's actually nothing new. I remember back in probably... 1995 he really
started bitching hard about how it should be GNU/Linux and then he started
taking lots of credit.
Of course, the original source of the GNU stuff is never brought up... So
that means RMS _had_ to have done them all from scratch... Right.
I was having a discussion with someone about the attitudes of the Linux
community, and the GNU community, and the constant raving of how all
computer innovations were open source, etc. etc. Has anyone else found any
truly unique innovations to come from _the GNU project_? The closest I can
find is translators in HURD, but I _think_ that had been done (to some
extent) outside of GNU before. It seems to me most of the 'open source
innovation' came from BSD, etc. not from GNU. If that's the case, then
they're implying that GNU has been the source of most computer innovation
(after all, it's usually said in defence of FSF/GNU/Linux), which is about
as accurate as calling RMS what he called himself...
I'll contribute funding for the Brett Glass / Richard Stallman Device
Thiny (tm). Will $5 be enough? I mean it already sort of exists anyway,
hey?
/joseph
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<josephm> Crystal Pepsi: sure it caused cancer,
but it was leet.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Dave Walton wrote:
> I've just had a wonderful idea for a new military weapon of
> unprecedented destructive power: Put Brett Glass and Richard
> Stallman in a freight container with a wall between them. When a
> timer expires the wall opens, causing a devastating
> matter/antimatter explosion. Think I can get funding from the
> Pentagon to develop this further?
>
> (That said, I had seen the signature on the aforementioned letter,
> and it does seem awfully arrogant.)
>
> Dave
>
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