Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

Except that Bell Labs has shown much more appreciation for things
invented outside than anyone else. Some of the best ideas in Unix were
lifted from Multics, the genius was to drop all the cruft. CSP is
another good example, ignored by a world that thinks pthreads is the
only way to write concurrent applications... and there are many other
examples that anyone that has done even the most cursory reading of
the Plan 9 will already know about.

Now, can you point to *anything* gnu has ever produced that is not at
best a hideously grotesque copy of something that might have made
sense thirty years ago.

uriel

P.S.: Sorry for being so easily trolled, but seems that I'm not the only one ;)

On Feb 3, 2008 2:17 AM, Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Juan M. Mendez wrote:
> > On 02/02/2008, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> * Uriel (uriel99@gmail.com) wrote:
> >>> Autotools badness is way beyond most peoples wildest imagination...
> >> Unfortunately, you don't have to imagine.
> >
> > So what are the facts to back up so many posts regarding autotools badness?
> > Just curious.
>
> An alternative interpretation is that the facts are skewed by the Bell
> Labs reality distortion field.  The syllogism goes something like this:
>
> All things not made at Bell Labs are bad
> GNU is not made at Bell Labs
> Therefore, GNU is bad
>