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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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> In <7dko67$3uf$1@palladium.transmeta.com> H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote:
> > Followup to: <19990327211331.C23438@hazel.buici.com>
> > By author: Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >>
> >> Clever. It is hard to argue with the elegance of your implementation.
> >> It is equally tough to argue against the utility of
> >>
> >> true --version
> >>
> >> reporting its source.
> >>
>
> > Actually it is: true and false are supposed to IGNORE their command
> > lines. I consider "true --help" and "true --version" to be BUGS.
>
> Hmmm.... Why tru and false should ignore their coomand lines ? If you want
> something to be ignored then why to supply it's at all ?
>

Because they can be used to substitute out commands.

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