[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix [really RMS bashing]

[Toby Thain]

On 2019-01-06 6:41 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> ...
> As others have said, I don't conflate coding prowess with the ability to
> design.  I've had many an argument with John Gilmore (one of the people
> who doesn't mind footing the cleaning and repair bill after allowing RMS
> to stay at his place) where he begins with "When I wrote GNU tar..."  I've
> always responded by saying that writing tar is no big deal; the specification
> was the hard part.
> 

Hear, hear. I'd aver this is very much the case in any typical
software-related day job, and _definitely_ mine.

--Toby