For the purpose of education not to fan silly semantic pedantics.
On 02/11/14 05:24, Miles Fidelman wrote:
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>Second, we're not talking about vaguely "unixy" - we're talking about a
>well developed philosophy of designing things that dates back to Ken
>Thompson, et. al (c.f., "The UNIX Programming Environment,"or
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy).
I keep wondering if that's a cause of confusion.
Why does the Linux kernel, GNU, and the rest of userland*have* to be
done "the UNIX" way??
I keep hearing this assertion, but neither Linus Torvalds, or RMS/seem/
to support it's requirement.
Could you expand on why this is a requirement from the people that
produce's point of view??