Re: GuhNoo: World's Biggest Technical Leecher

On 4/10/2024 3:04 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
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Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:

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The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.
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"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free?to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983
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He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of
being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.

  Ridiculous. 

Isn't it?  But when you have no ideas of your own, and you think everyone owes you their code (but they won't give it up), all you can do is beg, borrow and steal.

GNU and Linux together are a masterpiece of what open
source software can accomplish. 

No doubt some FOSS is quite, quite good, free of cost or not.
For instance, the SQLite dbms is public domain and open source (but not actually "Free" software, ie I don't have to make available to anyone modifications I make that I might sell or distribute).
But it's great stuff.  It's so easy to install and create databases, and table objects, and do backups and send around via email, etc.
Note: it's payware, but I still consider MS Office the best software value in history.  I won't accept ANY other office suite, free of cost or not, because I KNOW they ALL pale in comparison to MSO.

I'm running a distro of GNU/Linux on
a computer that's good enough to upgrade to Win12, but I don't even
need that, thanks to Stallman and Torvalds.  They may have gotten the
idea from the origins of Unix, but their combined product is its own.

They (the 'community') wrote the code so it technically is theirs, but basing it so closely on an existing product is a chump move.  Note the Linux kernel isn't based on an existing product.
But as noted, GuhNoo just stole everything they could from Unix: the file layout structure, the utility names and functionality, and even the incorporation of 'Unix' into their silly recursive name.
I'm surprised GNU/FSF hasn't been sued more (one guy brought an ill-conceived action against them, but he had no lawyer and his case was dismissed because he couldn't prove his claim or any injury).