From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 18:43:49 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <201709161920.v8GJK0ec020998@freefriends.org> References: <201709100944.v8A9iPeb024293@freefriends.org> <20170914161121.sx7eqzsqklzcncdb@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170914193905.GD25914@wopr> <20170914213535.4ptpo7jtaem6x5tf@thunk.org> <20170916034032.GO3272@mcvoy.com> <201709161920.v8GJK0ec020998@freefriends.org> Message-ID: <20170917014349.GW3272@mcvoy.com> I stand by my comment. I'm friends with the Cygnus folks, they would tend to agree with me I think. All that stuff you listed, can you list the things that the GNU/FSF people have funded? Because I think there is close to nothing. All of that stuff is stuff that came under the GNU umbrella but they didn't do the coding. I give credit to RMS for the GPL, that was cool. But claiming credit for stuff that GNU/FSF didn't do was not cool. On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 01:20:00PM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > The GNU guys have written very, very little code. > > Um, let's see: Bash. gawk. sed. grep. coreutils. binutils. gcc. ... > Essentially everything that was used from the command line on a > standard Unix system. All reimplemented from scratch. > > Many GNU maintainers are active (directly or indirectly) in the > POSIX standard efforts which influences all Unix implementations. > > > They are all about the license, which is fine, but I get off the bus > > when they are claiming credit for work they did not do. > > This not true of ALL the GNU project maintainers. Don't tar everyone > with RMS's brush. > > 'nuff said, > > And, IMHO, all this is WAY off topic and probably should be brought > to a close. > > Arnold -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm