On 06/05/2010 08:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > wrong - you are under the mistaken impression that the GNU project has > developed and maintains the GNU toolchain. That is not correct. Many > individuals have done and are doing this - the only thing is that some of > them > use the 'GNU' word. In fact, if I am not mistaken, Redhat maintains and > develops a good part of it. So without RMS and without GNU, the toolchain > would still exist and linux would still flourish. As far as I can see, those > projects that are directly developed and maintained by the GNU project do not > work properly and are mostly useless - like hurd. >
Yes, Red Hat does maintain or contribute significantly to several GNU projects including coreutils, Glibc, GCC etc and while I understand your point, you seem to make a false distinction between directly and indirectly maintained projects from GNU. GNU is a umbrella effort of the FSF to create a completely free software environment and there is participation from volunteers and multiple organizations, commercial and otherwise. FSF doesn't employ anyone to directly to work on any of the GNU projects anymore although they did in the past. Some of the GNU projects are more successful than others but that is hardly remarkable. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
