From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 23 16: 7:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E22D837B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 77077 invoked by uid 100); 23 Apr 2001 23:07:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15076.46526.386033.605782@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:07:42 -0500 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010423165233.00b0b870@mail85.pair.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010416114300.04d00640@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20010423165233.00b0b870@mail85.pair.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org G. Adam Stanislav types: > At 13:48 16-04-2001 -0400, Joseph Mallett wrote: > >Bill Gates is hardly RMS' opposite. The GPL is every bit infectious and > >virus-like as Windows. If anything, they're twins, just don't suggest it > >to RMS. Bill Gates, however, would probably have the sense to realise it > >was true. > Personally, I think of them as two faces of the same coin. As such, > they cannot exist without each other. Well, at least RMS could not > exist without Bill Gates. That's about how I feel about it. Both are seeking to turn software into a commodity distributed under their control. > Makes me wish we did not rely on the GNU C compiler so much: Next RMS > will call himself a principal FreeBSD developer! I believe he did do a lot of work on the C compiler, so he has contributed a lot to FreeBSD. As for using another C compiler - did any of the other free compilers survive to this era sans the GPL? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message