From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:32:52 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2301222230010.31399@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2301231345270.35099@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
>> I think there was one particular dc clone...guy whose name started with
>> a G? and his version did that.
>
> On my ancient MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2010, High Sierra 10.13.6):
>
> mackie:~ dave$ dc
> (^D)
> mackie:~ dave$ dc -V
> dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
>
> On my ancient FreeBSD server:
>
> aneurin% dc
> (^D)
> aneurin% dc -V
> dc (BSD bc) 1.3-FreeBSD
>
> Nil prompt in both cases.
>
>> Most Linux versions use GNU's which Does The Right Thing®™©.
>
> Perhaps so, but I try to avoid using Penguin/OS and GNU... I don't like
> its licence conditions ("free" it ain't), and I would rather write my own
> libraries than be constrained by Stallman's conditions.
>
> -- Dave
I've dealt with fanboys telling me how to do GPL on my own stuff, and it
left a sore taste in my mouth. I don't care about the stuff I *use*, but
it did leave me very negative about the GPL itself, and if it seems that
some of the OS-building stuff I've been talking about here and elsewhere
has anything to do with a grudge against GNU,...well...it does.
Still, GNU does seem to have more respect for precedent than a lot of
johnny-come-lately coders trying to reimplement stuff themselves.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-23 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-22 23:39 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-01-22 23:41 ` [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-01-22 23:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-22 23:49 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-22 23:57 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-23 0:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-23 3:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-23 3:11 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-23 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-23 13:59 ` ron minnich
2023-01-23 3:32 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2023-01-23 3:38 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 3:39 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 3:40 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 14:15 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-23 21:08 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-24 0:59 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-23 0:15 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-23 0:20 ` ron minnich
2023-01-23 0:23 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 0:26 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-23 0:39 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-23 1:32 ` Rob Pike
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