Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu]

In alt.folklore.computers Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
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> 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.

Dunno 'bout that. There was (and perhaps is, for some platforms) a 
selection of low-cost C compilers -- but gcc relentlessly crowds 'em
out of a huge chunk of the market.  Is this a good thing? Maybe.

We wouldn't be here in exactly the same way as we are now, but we'd be
here, albeit using a slightly different toolset.  The FSF helped shape
part of the computing culture -- but they did not create it.

If there's only one lesson the FSF /needs/ to learn, that is it.

>> But that was too long, so they shortened it.
>
> I propose a new motto of a.f.c: "Respect where it's due."

Oh, that'll be a great slogan for flame wars.

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