On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:42 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Knowing a lot does not make you "brilliant".
A'yup. Knowledge. Experience. Intelligence. Wisdom. All different things, and much more valuable together than individually. > Without RMS the GNU tools, the GPL, Linux, and probably > FOSS in general would never have come to exist. Several thousand BSD users would beg to differ. Software started out Free. The idea of locking it up came later. More specifically: Unix started out Free. Ken Thompson gave it away to anyone who asked. John Lions published the source in a book. BSD was based on it. Then AT&T tried to lock it all up. BSD fought back. It was a long, ugly fight, but ultimately, a Free BSD (no pun intended) prevailed. RMS has made major contributions. RMS took the assumption many were operating under and codified them into the GPL. He recognized the need for an organized campaign to protect software Freedom, and actually undertook that campaign. That's quite a lot. But let's not go too far. We all stand upon the shoulders of giants. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
