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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nic James Ferrier</b> <<a href="mailto:nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk">nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Nico Kadel-Garcia <<a href="mailto:nkadel@gmail.com">nkadel@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> So you're a local FSF member? I''ve known Stallman for years: he was
<br>> pretty livid when the Linux kernel came out, filled the hole in the<br>> basis for an open-source OS tthat the HURD kernel had never quite<br>> managed, and got so much credit for the rest of the operating<br>
> systems.<br><br>I've known Stallman for years as well. I believe what you said there<br>is libellous.<br><br>That is just not his position and paints him in a petty and self<br>serving light. He is neither of those things.
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<div>What? It's not petty on his part. He's got a real point. Please read <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html</a>, which matches what Richard says about it iin private as well as in public. The FSF successfully built up most of an open-source OS using GNU tools: they only lacked the kernel. The HURD kernel never worked reliably until well after the Linux kernel was out there and a major component of many different operating system distributions. The result is that people talk about Linux as an operating system and the GNU basis for it is ignored, along with
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<div>Heck, you should have sene Richard at the presentation about Palladium, later renamed Trusted Computing. I have stories about that: Richard was at his best, correctly shredding the presenter's glowing presentation and pointing out its real purposes for DRM.
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