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> However, now some are beginning to see the light as history > continues to be rewritten and a history lesson is unfolding. > These efforts go back to the days when > "distributions" consisted of 56 floppy disks and Linus was > in Helsinki, working on his degree. The FSF didn't exist, and > GNU was the name of an immature compiler. The FSF was founded in 1985, now who is rewriting history here :-) "GNU" never was the name for the compiler, either. > Sometimes we need > to be reminded of the history of a particular thing because, > once out-of-mind, history tends to be rewritten by those who > would advance in its new "interpretation." I don't really want to know what you try to gain by this "properly composed statement", heh. Segher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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