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Re: The GNU thing



On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> I thought the following comment from Linus was interesting. It comes from
> an article he wrote at www.linuxworld.com
> 
> ...

> The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux
> under the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the
> GCC compiler. I think that all the other projects from the GNU group
> are for Linux insignificant in comparison. GCC is the only one that
> I really care about. A number of them I hate with a passion; the
> Emacs editor is horrible, for example. While Linux is larger than
> Emacs, at least Linux has the excuse that it needs to be.

> 
> ...Linus Torvalds
> 

Hi George

Sounds like religion to me. Religion is religion 
no matter who pronounces it. 

Emacs is a religion.  Some hate it, some love it. 
Few are neutral. I love Emacs.

I respect those who use small editors and restart
the editor for each compilation error. 


With great respect for Linus, George B, and all the
rest of those who make _MY_ operating system and its 
ecoutrements possible and useful, I am 


David Teague dbt@eletnari.cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux: Because the support is free and the best anywhere.
	          The software is useful, free, easy to use and stable.



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