What is a cypherpunk?

[Justin]

On 2005-02-09T22:38:05-0600, 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.

I think everyone who reads Cypherpunks knows what Linus did and did not
do, and that "operating system" in JAD's post means "kernel".

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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those
who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really
care for anything else thereafter. --Hemingway, Esquire Apr/1936