[Ilugc] Google drops Windows in their workplace
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Thu Jun 3 01:26:09 2010
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
basically RMS was miffed that he could not write a kernel and linus did - so
he
wanted a share of the credit. So he demanded that the word 'GNU' be added. But
for those who do not know the history, the word 'GNU/Linux' implies ownership
of linux by GNU. This also could be fair enough (although rather childish) as
long as Linus agreed to it - he did not.
anyway, for any usable distro one needs not only GNU, but also BSD - like
fedora would be junk without python - apache (httpd, subversion, etc etc) ,
MIT licensed stuff and about 30-40 other licenses. So would it make sense to
call it GNU/BSD/APACHE/MIT/Linux? Everyone wants credit no?
oops, python, git et all are all written in GCC - so let us give them the
credit - GNU/Python, GNU/Git ...
I find your reasoning very interesting KG.
Stallman is loved like crazy in the OpenBSD circles for his
sacrificial mindset and
an overtly self effacing nature. ;)
Long ago there was a very friendly chat between Theo and Stallman. The
mailing list
was big fun then.
Nowadays we have to resort to some Tamizh serial instead for entertainment.
I have seen old men who get litigous because they have energy; not the
wisdom to
pursue God and not the intellect to pursue science; and most do not have enough
responsibility at home or work to serve society either.
So they take to what gives them some belongingness.
I think Stallman retired long ago from coding; he wrote gcc, gdb,
emacs and a whole
bunch of great stuff. Since then he has been evangelizing.
In fact even in Hinduism you find that the truly religious don't go
around preaching like
Ravishankar...
-Girish
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