From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 20:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f100883a-614e-0cf6-48ce-38076b2ccf3e@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201901062341.x06NfXe2021557@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
On 2019-01-06 6:41 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> ...
> As others have said, I don't conflate coding prowess with the ability to
> design. I've had many an argument with John Gilmore (one of the people
> who doesn't mind footing the cleaning and repair bill after allowing RMS
> to stay at his place) where he begins with "When I wrote GNU tar..." I've
> always responded by saying that writing tar is no big deal; the specification
> was the hard part.
>
Hear, hear. I'd aver this is very much the case in any typical
software-related day job, and _definitely_ mine.
--Toby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-07 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-06 23:41 Jon Steinhart
2019-01-07 1:29 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07 1:59 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-01-07 2:39 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07 2:59 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-07 5:05 ` Toby Thain
2019-01-07 5:36 ` Andy Kosela
2019-01-07 1:38 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2019-01-07 2:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-07 2:31 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-07 0:49 Larry McVoy
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