At 10:38 PM 2/9/05 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 09:09 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: >> There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating >> system, so Linus did. > >Linus Torvalds didn't write the GNU OS. He wrote the Linux kernel, which >when added to the rest of the existing GNU OS, written by Richard >Stallman among others, allowed a completely free operating system. >Please don't continue to spread the misconception that Linus Torvalds >wrote the entire (GNU) operating system.
Who gives a fuck? RMS was fermenting in his own philosophical stew, to put it politely. The shame is that BSD didn't explode like L*nux did, and that all that work had to be re-done, and with a nasty ATT flavor to boot (no pun intended).