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Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)
In article <3E541E43.C37674B2@attbi.com>,
Scott Moore <scott.moore6@attbi.com> wrote:
> stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu wrote:
> >
> > In alt.folklore.computers Sami S. Sihvonen <noco@sunpoint.net> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Just another commercial Unix(tm) system replaced with GNU/Linux. :)
> >
> > That's Linux/GNU, isn't it?
> >
> > --
> > --Stewart
> > Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--
> > Apparently I am not very good at being tricky. --John Hughes (October
> > 2000)
>
> More like: Linux/"Losers who cannot write operating systems to save their
> lives"
No need to be so disparaging. The FSF *did* produce gcc, which built my
world (and probably yours too), and a myriad other tools without which
we (and Linux) probably wouldn't be here.
>
> But that was too long, so they shortened it.
I propose a new motto of a.f.c: "Respect where it's due."
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