On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:23:02PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:27:05PM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > What the GNU project has done is give a name and a visibility, defined > > a set of guidelines (and licenses) and created the expectations that > > define both the Open Source and the Free Software movement. > > Enlightening post. Thank you.
While I do agree with this perspective, I do think it tends to overly minimize the actual software the FSF produced and maintains, especially gcc and the binutils, which were and are absolutely essential for everything else. I've said before that Linux' portability is gcc's portability, and for that reason alone, we do well to accomodate RMS' request for GNU attribution. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org