From: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 16:38:40 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 3:27 PM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com wrote:
> On 1/5/19, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:
> [concerning Richard Stallman]
> >
> > Building an operating system in and of itself was not so much his goal as
> > building the friendships and community surrounding it.
> >
> The GNU Hurd kernel certainly seems to have gotten nowhere, and with
> the success of Linux IMO the free software community doesn't need it
> anymore. But FSF certainly has made a big impact and contribution
> with the gcc toolchain and the free versions of the Unix shell and
> utilities.
>
But RMS sort of invented that community, just like Al Gore sort of invented
the internet (as we know it today). He was certainly an important catalyst,
and his views remain influential to many people.
He was wrong about Unix, though. It is not merely an adequate OS. It is
ideal. ;-)
>
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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
2019-01-05 17:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 20:27 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 21:38 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
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
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2019-01-06 3:45 ` Paul McJones
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