Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 09/15/2014 11:33 AM, Bzzzz wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400
> Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Most of us are no interested in what Stallman or whoever created back
> > in 1995. We don't think of Linux as GNU.
>
> Ahhh, so you are the declared and _democratically elected_ spokesman
> of, let's say 80% of the Linux community (shit, I should read more
> news and articles: nobody told me about that!)
>
> > Linux is much more Unix than
> > anything else.
>
> This is an interesting declaration, although it calls for a tiny
> bit more than your words for us to agree.
>
> > And it certainly is _not_ what GNU was back then.
>
> Once again, this is your words, please develop that in a way
> we, poor dumb asses of users (but ô highly represented ;-p),
> can understand.
>
> > I don't like to get involved in this dumb tirade, but the GNU business
> > grates on me!
>
> Ohhh, as a spokesman you aren't very friendly to the people
> you're representing - so once again, pleeease develop your rant
> so we, poor dumb users, can understand why GNU, which has been our
> guardian and in a manner our way of life for the last 30 years,
> is sooo meeean (Richard, if you read me, it's whenever you want:)

Sorry, I see only that he represented his views, which also happens to 
coincide with my own. Please, if you have to label someone, you've lost 
your argument's points from the get-go. :) Ric


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