From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 20:59:13 -0600 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <201406020209.s5229Q5o006174@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu>
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On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Phil Garcia wrote:
> I've always wondered about something
> else, though: Were the original Unix authors annoyed when they learned that
> some irascible young upstart named Richard Stallman was determined to make
> a free Unix clone? Was he a gadfly, or just some kook you decided to
> ignore? The fathers of Unix have been strangely silent on this topic for
> many years. Maybe nobody's ever asked?
In private moments, some of the BSD old-timers have told me they are silent
due to bad blood that Stallman’s early fund-raising and propaganda efforts
created. Why rehash 20 year old battles with an obvious nutcase, eh? Since
more than one person has told me this, so I think silence is a wide-spread
case of “If you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all."
> Gnu was always taken as a compliment. And of course the Unix clone
> was pie in the sky until Linus came along. I wonder about the power
> relationship underlying "GNU/Linux", as rms modestly styles it.
Of course, it should be noted that the GNU project was totally incapable
of producing a working kernel… They did decent clones of user land stuff,
but Hurd was a total dead end...
> There are certain differences in taste between Unix and Gnu, vide
> emacs and texinfo. (I grit my teeth every time a man page tells me,
> "The full documentation for ___ is maintained as a Texinfo file.")
> But all disagreement is swept away before the fact that the old
> familiar environment is everywhere, from Cray to Apple, with rms
> a very important contributor.
Emacs is awesome….
Warner
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 2:09 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-02 2:24 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 2:59 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2014-06-02 3:17 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-02 3:37 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 4:08 ` scj
2014-06-02 5:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-02 12:31 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02 4:04 ` Nick Downing
2014-06-02 4:43 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 6:23 ` arnold
2014-06-02 17:35 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 18:44 ` Warner Losh
2014-06-02 18:52 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 3:18 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 6:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-06-02 12:04 ` Clem Cole
2014-06-02 12:27 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2014-06-02 14:11 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-06-02 14:25 ` Clem Cole
2014-06-02 14:41 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 14:50 ` Armando Stettner
2014-06-02 18:27 ` Brantley Coile
2014-06-02 18:52 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-02 19:10 ` arnold
2014-06-03 1:45 ` Brantley Coile
2014-06-02 19:30 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 19:54 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-02 23:37 ` John Cowan
2014-06-03 1:24 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-03 2:16 ` John Cowan
2014-06-03 2:18 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-02 19:47 ` Chris Nehren
2014-06-02 20:23 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-03 18:48 ` [TUHS] Evolutionary Paths (was Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')) scj
2014-06-04 1:10 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-04 3:42 ` Greg Chesson
2014-06-05 0:43 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-02 21:08 ` [TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck') Charlie Kester
2014-06-03 0:37 ` Tim Newsham
2014-06-02 20:06 ` Jacob Goense
2014-06-02 14:26 ` arnold
2014-06-02 14:30 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 14:24 ` John Cowan
2014-06-02 14:29 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02 14:37 ` Clem Cole
2014-06-05 7:31 ` Arno Griffioen
2014-06-05 8:24 ` emu
2014-06-05 9:17 ` Wesley Parish
2014-06-05 11:26 ` Brantley Coile
2014-06-05 13:34 ` Jesus Cea
2014-06-11 12:10 ` Michael Parson
2014-06-12 1:20 ` Wesley Parish
2014-06-05 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2014-06-05 18:26 ` Ronald Natalie
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