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:

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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).