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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote: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.On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:Ridiculous.
>Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest>
leecher:
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.
GNU and Linux together are a masterpiece of what openNo doubt some FOSS is quite, quite good, free of cost or not.
source software can accomplish.
I'm running a distro of GNU/Linux onThey (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.
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.
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