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- From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 19:17:18 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley
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- References: <FISCHER.92Dec15014923@thor.iesd.auc.dk> <1992Dec15.042930.23371@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <DREIER.92Dec14235242@durban.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <DREIER.92Dec14235242@durban.berkeley.edu> dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:
- >Sounds almost like the strategy that some folks (can't remember the
- >name of the organization right now, sorry) used a few years back. I
- >seem to remember reading some "Manifesto" or something years ago,
- >promising a free Unix clone; but it seems to just have turned out to
- >be a scam for getting programmers to donate their code to this
- >organization and gulling idealists into proselytizing their silly
- >politics.
-
- Ah, but this organization has already indirectly produced two Unix
- clones: 386bsd and Linux. What, you say? FSF did not produce those
- systems, someone else did? Ah, but neither of those systems would
- be usable without the Gnu tools, and, in the case of 386bsd, it was
- the political atmosphere created by the Gnu project that led to
- enough software being made freely redistributable so that it was
- feasible for the Jolitzes to finish the job.
-
- FSF evidently changed course from the original plan, concentrating
- instead on building the world's best portable C compiler. I think
- this was good strategy myself, even if it makes it easier for their
- opponents to make them look bad.
-
- And as for your last sentence: if you'd read the Gnu Manifesto, you'd
- know that RMS's intention was political all along. For something to
- be a "scam", it needs to be dishonest. RMS told you his plan and
- his program up front.
-
-
-
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- Joe Buck jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
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