didier declared, > Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes: > Manuel> I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of the > Manuel> times
> That's because you don't use them to their full extent. No, it's that their full extent is a pita (hmm, i don't mean to speak for manuel). >From a command line, -h is quicker & easier than --help, etc. And I'm not even going to start on the info rather than man nonsense . . . The gnu stuff is just plain un-unixy. > It's hard to > return to `standard' tools once you've tried the GNU version. Especially the > fileutils, binutils, auto*tools etc. It's also hard to go back to GNU once you've used the FreeBSD versions :) > > > Manuel> and they're too worried about imposing their own standards to others. > That however is true :-(, and I think this partly explains the number > of projects splits that occured: GNU Emacs/XEmacs, Gcc/Egcs, others, and > Francois Pinard who's sooooo fed up with them that he's probably gonna turn > GNU recode into Free recode, not to speak of others. Huge program that tries to do everything, consumes massive resources, is hostile to existing standards, tries to force changes in other programs if they wish to be allowed to run. Hmm, which source am I talking about :) --
