"Greg Rundlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A quick note on the subject of what Dr. Stallman has done for all of
> us... Everyone generally thinks of the GPL, or the GCC or emacs. I
> always think of the "ell-ess' command. If you read the man / info
> page, you'll see
>
> AUTHOR
> Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
>
> Where would we be without an ls command?
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname
FreeBSD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# man ls
...
HISTORY
An ls command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
For those of you who unaware, or perhaps have forgotten your history,
Version 1 AT&T UNIX, was release in 1971. rms did not "write" the ls
command for UNIX, he *re-implemented* a *version* of an already
exising program in a clean-room approach so as to not be encumbered by
the AT&T copyrights. However, BSD had already done this. By your
argument, the best that be claimed in this one instance is that rms
needlessly re-invented the wheel.
Note, I'm not arguing that rms has not done great things, but he most
emphatically did not invent the concept of FOSS, nor did he write the
ls command.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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