[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix
Paul Winalski
paul.winalski at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 06:27:42 AEST 2019
On 1/5/19, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
[concerning Richard Stallman]
>
> Building an operating system in and of itself was not so much his goal as
> building the friendships and community surrounding it.
>
The GNU Hurd kernel certainly seems to have gotten nowhere, and with
the success of Linux IMO the free software community doesn't need it
anymore. But FSF certainly has made a big impact and contribution
with the gcc toolchain and the free versions of the Unix shell and
utilities.
-Paul W.
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