[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sun Jan 6 01:31:33 AEST 2019


+1.  RMS always talked big but the real work was done by other people.
GCC was Tiemann at Sun and then at Cygnus, groff was James Clark,
etc.  I think RMS hacked on emacs but not much else.

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 09:35:53PM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> Yep, it???s pretty superficial when it comes to looking at where we are today.   
> Further, the puppy love over RMS is entirely unjustified.   He was in the right place with a rant about the industry but he???s oft unduly credited by a lot of the early GNU hangers on like Len Tower who made the project a success in spite
> of RMS. 
> 
> If anybody truly knew RMS they???d not tolerate any of this.   He???s the most odiferous, objectionable, sexist, pedophile I have ever met (though I???ve not met the President yet).

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