From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 16 4:39:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E41637B423 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 19229 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Apr 2001 11:39:17 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 07:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Dave Walton Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <3ADA248B.18989.CAFB8@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org xMach Research Group www.xmrg.com 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message