From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:37:59 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <03c101d32eeb$9f4444c0$ddccce40$@ronnatalie.com> References: <201709100944.v8A9iPeb024293@freefriends.org> <20170914161121.sx7eqzsqklzcncdb@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170914193905.GD25914@wopr> <20170914213535.4ptpo7jtaem6x5tf@thunk.org> <20170916034032.GO3272@mcvoy.com> <03c101d32eeb$9f4444c0$ddccce40$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <65d836b4-f6c0-c03f-aa81-9ce0e52ea78b@case.edu> On 9/16/17 8:59 AM, Ron Natalie wrote: > RMS hates UNIX. That was clear in the original manifesto. But he's also > a megalomaniac and believes that if you even use a GNU tool your work > becomes his. Nah, this is BS. Stallman might not like Unix, and he clearly has a very large ego -- as do many of us here -- but that "belief" is just crap. The thing that comes closest to it is bison, and the output of bison is explicitly excluded. There is the issue of GPL libraries (like readline), and that's a pain for people who want to link with them, but that doesn't count as "even use a GNU tool." -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/