Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:53:50 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:07:18AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on May 13, 2000 at 10:07:18: > At 07:08 AM 5/13/2000, gh wrote: > > >Curious: If many people are not in favor (for lack of a better phrase) of > >GNU, why do we still use tools developed under its ideology? > > I personally have advocated the complete de-GNUing of all of the BSDs. So how many replacements have you written for GNU utilities? And why aren't the FreeBSD project or other people using your de-GNU'd code? Is it possible that there may be more useful things for other people to do than rewrite existing well-written code? R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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