Re: [OT: the Jargon File and the Hurd]
--- "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> 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.
More like Guy L. Steele than Richard Stallman. But ESR claims that GLS
approved of the new version. It would be nice if the entries had date stamps
on them so you could see when they were added. I wonder if that could be
retrofitted?
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