From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:52:29 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060328104923.N74701@orthanc.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24344754-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > we should not deprive andy tannenbaum of one iota of the credit he > so richly deserves for spurring the creation of linux. >> I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death >> and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they unbundled >> the C compiler. Sun is as responsible for GCC as the AT&T lawyers >> are responsible for Linux. True enough. My point was that both GCC and Linux received a tremendous boost in popularity due to two massive acts of corporate stupidity. --lyndon P.S. This doesn't mean I'll ever *forgive* Andy Tannenbaum for spurring the creation of Linux.