> Leave that subject to people that have to say something useful about it.
Honestly, your comments were the inflametory ones. My comments were based largely of fact and wholely on opinion. Whether RMS is a zealot or not was nothing to do with the original posters faux pas. > Where you really did not do yourself a favour is when you lacked > respect to somebody that was at the base of what we know as FSF without > which a lot of things we take for granted today would not exist - Mac > OS X included - and when you started calling names - GNU zealots. It is > a cheap shot and rather provocative. Stallman is a hero to some and a demon to others. My personal opinion is irrelevant. It seems you like him. I originally assumed you were sticking up for the poster I replied to... didn't realise you were upset about RMS. (for anyone who isn't following this... RMS is the usual geek rendering of Richard Stallman's name - nothing to do with the original poster who unfortunately seems to have similar initials..) MacOS X is based on OPENSTEP. OPENSTEP used the Mach kernel, as does OS X up to a point. The basis of which has less (if anything) to do with FSF, more to do with Carnegie Mellon University. I use OPENSTEP on an almost daily basis. Please do not preach to me. OPENSTEP owes less to GNU, and more to BSD. Very little of OPENSTEP is GNU. MacOS X is basically Aqua grafted on to OPENSTEP. Even the spinning pizza of death wait cursor is directly taken verbatim from OPENSTEP. MacOS X's kernel is more of a hybrid. Mostly Mach but with a lot of BSD. BSD (in its many flavours) is NOT a GNU OS. It doesn't even use the GPL. Although I see FSF would like BSD to be called GNU/BSD because it uses some userland components from the GNU project. > Let us get back to Mac's, please. NP. If you want to take this off list, fine by me. However, since you have yet to back up any claims I assume you want this to drop - and so dropped it is ;-) M -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
