On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:46:09PM EDT, David L. Craig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:23:02PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:27:05PM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > What the GNU project has done is give a name and a visibility, > > > defined a set of guidelines (and licenses) and created the > > > expectations that define both the Open Source and the Free > > > Software movement.
> > Enlightening post. Thank you. > > While I do agree with this perspective, I do think it tends > to overly minimize the actual software the FSF produced and > maintains, especially gcc and the binutils, which were and > are absolutely essential for everything else. I've said before > that Linux' portability is gcc's portability, and for that > reason alone, we do well to accomodate RMS' request for GNU > attribution. Come to think of it, maybe "food for thought" was closer to what I meant. And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and binutils. I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything have been possible without them? CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
