[OT] Re: Anyone has read the FSF Usenix speech ?
>>>>> "TL" == Thierry Laronde <thierry@cri74.org> writes:
TL> Hello, After coming back from the Debian Conference --- where
TL> we heard Marcus about the HURD ---,
Lucky fellow. I would like to have gone.
http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~ateras/travel/debian_conference/aut_9680.jpg
TL> I was surfing on the gnu website in order to see the news. And
TL> I have read the speech from somebody of the FSF
Robert Chassell (founding Director, Secretary/Treasurer and
Chief Financial Officer of the FSF (and co-author of, amongst
other things, texinfo)).
TL> thanking the USENIX for the award... and the paragraph about
TL> the kernels... Well...
Well what?
TL> I have felt a bit puzzled about whether it was good to give
TL> the info or not. Altogether, it's better not to hide.
What are you referring to?
http://www.gnu.org/events/bob-usenix-lifetime-accept.txt, I
presume (the statement is largely about freedom). The 2 or 3
years before July 98 *were* slow moving, that's no secret. The
comments about the Linux kernel did make me raise an eyebrow but
are clarified well enough.
TL> I would like now to have the official position of the FSF.
About what? Probably this is not the place to find it anyway.
TL> I still think that there is a place for an extended Unix child
TL> kernel.
I don't understand this. You mean the Hurd?
Paul.
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Paul.Emsley@chem.gla.ac.uk
http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~paule
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