"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The X Windows system consists of an X server and client libraries > communicating via a network transparent protocol. > > The X window system is a protocol, like FTP. Maybe you mean XFree86 > or X.Org? A X window system implementation is infact part of the > GNU system; which I do not know since none really work very well > with the Hurd. > > FTP is part of every GNU work station, but the procotol, like X, > isn't developed by the FSF.
Neither are the FTP clients. You are desparately clutching at straws. > There is a difference between assembling a system, and developing > its components. The FSF certainly does not develop X11. > > Neither does the FSF develop FTP, SMTP, Gopher, HTTP, .... I fail > to see what protocols have to do with this. So does anybody else. The protocols are a blatant red herring brought up by yourself. The topic is the programs and libraries constituting a GNU system. And those are to a significant degree developed by third parties and used as components in a compilation. > Guess what: manifest or not, hero worship or not, Richard has not > been responsible for all of what is subsumed into a GNU system. > And if you actually believe that, you are being spectacularly > dense. Just read all the copyright notices. > > As the head for the GNU project he is responsible for it. He might > not have written every single line, but he is the head of the GNU > project, whether you like it or not. And that is what St. IGNUcius > says. It is irrelevant to the copyright situation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
