Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU TeX 0.80 (beta)

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From: Peter Seebach
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <36A8B747.5E310D36@urbanophile.com>,
Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com> wrote:
>The point about FreeBSD is that is was never the free operating system the
>GNU project set out to build.  FreeBSD grew out of a desire by different
>people to take the existing BSD system and get it released as free software,
>which is what they did.  This required replacing some components (such as
>the compiler), which the FreeBSD project did.  They do use GNU components
>and I presume other non-BSD software such as perl.  But that doesn't change
>where FreeBSD came from, which is someplace completely different from GNU. 
>This was a different project with a different vision and goal.

And Linux came from someplace completely different than GNU.

I don't buy the argument that if what I envision and build happens to have
been thought of by someone else, they can stick their name on it.

Especially since Hurd is so much different from Linux.

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