For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics.
On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: <snipped> > > Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" - we're talking about a > well developed philosophy of designing things that dates back to Ken > Thompson, et. al (c.f., "The UNIX Programming Environment,"or > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy). I keep wondering if that's a cause of confusion. Why does the Linux kernel, GNU, and the rest of userland *have* to be done "the UNIX" way?? I keep hearing this assertion, but neither Linus Torvalds, or RMS /seem/ to support it's requirement. Could you expand on why this is a requirement from the people that produce's point of view?? <snipped> Kind regards -- "Turns out you can't back a winner in the Gish Gallop" ~ disappointed punter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5455819a.9040...@gmail.com
