Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RMS | From | (Janne Sinkkonen) | Date | 07 Mar 1996 12:34:22 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Asha <karl@ncm.com> writes:
Karl> RMS is a fairly large tit. Thank you, Karl Asha Karl> karl@ncm.com
Speaking of body parts, one could conclude from your message that you are a big asshole. Your second message on this list makes you even bigger (as a hole).
Linux would certainly not exist in its present form without the GNU project:
1. It would have been really hard or impossible to develop the kernel without the GNU tools. 2. Nobody would have been interested of a pure kernel without any applications even if it could have been developed. 3. If there were no interest and no users, there would had been no commercial applications. 3. The number of people taking part in development and beta testing would had been much much smaller if the compiler etc. had been commercial (costly). 4. As a user without GNU, you won't get far past mounting your root system.
As an example, I'm writing this in emacs running in linux, both compiled with gcc, connected over ssh, using the GNUS newsreader, and bash.
The Linux kernel was and is the missing piece needed to make GNU popular. Alternatively you can say that GNU made Linux possible. It is all too easy to forget the GNU in your system. Mostly people think and speak about Linux.
IMHO we should pay particular attention to this.
-- Janne (A not so active beta tester but an enthusiastic user)
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