From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 12:43: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ulmer.iserver.net (ulmer.iserver.net [192.41.59.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E455152D5 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 12:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulmer@ulmer.iserver.net) Received: from localhost (ulmer@localhost) by ulmer.iserver.net (8.8.5) id NAA15261; Thu, 27 May 1999 13:42:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:42:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Adam Ulmer Reply-To: Adam Ulmer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Mr. M" Subject: Give credit where credit is due In-Reply-To: <000801bea873$106c7000$982b20d8@MM.compulsiv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Linux came from Linus Torvalds. FreeBSD came from BSD which came from Berkeley State's CS dept. Granted, GNU and FSF have been mighty helpful, but if RMS were the only one to support GNU/FSF then what? The answer is that *WE* make linux/*BSD possible. Credit belongs to the community that sustains the waves long after a gentle wind starts them. Credit also goes those that channel and support the waves. [Funny comicstrip that gives a history, of sorts.] http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98nov/19981128.html Adam On Thu, 27 May 1999, Mr. M wrote: > > > > If noone's mentioned this yet, /bin/bash is a "linux only" thing. > > bash is far from a "Linux only" thing. It is available from the Free > Software Foundation as part of their GNU project. www.gnu.org > > If it weren't for Richard Stallman we probably would not have Linux or > FreeBSD today. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message