Dimitri Maziuk writes: > Heh. You made me look. No, contrary to the popular belief LiGNUx did not > invent the world,
There is no such thing as LiGNUx. Stallman may have his fingers in a lot of software (to my everlasting annoyance; he wrote, and at last check circa 2013 continues to write, some of the most unmaintainable and uncomposable crap), but he didn't invent the world either (he does seem to have independently invented #AlternativeFacts, though). > nor did mailman invent "arch". Independent invention, apparently. :-) > Sunos had it since forever, but it appears nobody else did. Somehow > it made its way into linux If it is in POSIX, as Phil implies, that would explain it. By the time it made it into Linux distros, most of them were pretty serious about POSIX compatibility. > and apparently everyone's been trying to get rid of it ever > since. Including sunos. Do you have a citation for this history? I like to collect > <useless things I learn over Saturday morning coffee/> ha ha -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull/sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: [email protected] University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
