Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 18 May 2006 12:48:28 +0200: > >>> 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. > >> 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. > > THIRD parties? OK, the FSF is one party, so who's the second party?
X.org is the same as the FSF? Not last time I looked. > Hey, isn't free software all just one big party? Not a good stance, since then the fight for leadership begins. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
