From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 07:31:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190105153133.GA24497@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22BA2F17-310F-4396-A35A-23E2D1130018@ronnatalie.com>
+1. RMS always talked big but the real work was done by other people.
GCC was Tiemann at Sun and then at Cygnus, groff was James Clark,
etc. I think RMS hacked on emacs but not much else.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:35:53PM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> Yep, it???s pretty superficial when it comes to looking at where we are today.
> Further, the puppy love over RMS is entirely unjustified. He was in the right place with a rant about the industry but he???s oft unduly credited by a lot of the early GNU hangers on like Len Tower who made the project a success in spite
> of RMS.
>
> If anybody truly knew RMS they???d not tolerate any of this. He???s the most odiferous, objectionable, sexist, pedophile I have ever met (though I???ve not met the President yet).
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-05 2:26 Doug McIlroy
2019-01-05 2:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-01-05 15:31 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-01-05 17:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 20:27 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 21:38 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 21:51 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:53 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 1:50 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:18 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 17:07 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-05 21:20 ` joe mcguckin
2019-01-06 1:43 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:40 ` [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-01-06 6:01 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-06 6:03 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 6:26 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 7:50 ` [TUHS] Emacs Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-06 14:23 ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-06 14:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-05 9:08 ` [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix William Corcoran
2019-01-05 12:09 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 14:15 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 15:01 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-06 4:35 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 4:52 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 5:00 ` Toby Thain
2019-01-05 4:20 Noel Chiappa
2019-01-05 14:30 Noel Chiappa
2019-01-05 15:04 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 15:26 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-05 15:37 ` Ben Greenfield via TUHS
2019-01-05 21:34 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <mailman.2.1546724053.30035.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-06 3:45 ` Paul McJones
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