Re: [OT: the Jargon File and the Hurd]
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
> I was just skimming the Jargon File, and found the following rather
> amusing comment under "Linux":
>
> Linux is what GNU aimed to be, and it relies on the GNU toolset. But the
> Free Software Foundation didn't produce the kernel to go with that
> toolset until 1999, which was too late.
Oddly, the Jargon File is not Eric Raymond's in origin (and heck, he
even mispelled "nickel" in it)--it's goes back to, well, people like
RMS. ESR has broken a very nice thing in many ways.
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