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Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Jay Maynard
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:01
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:11:11 +0300, Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> wrote:
>> My point being that, once RMS found he couldn't hitch a ride on the Linux
>> shooting star,
>Sure, since RMS did it almost ten years before it is very hard
>for even a hacker like RMS try to ride shooting star that happens
>ten year in the future...

What have you been smoking? RMS may have wanted his own OS in 1984, but he
didn't *have* one in 1992 (or, arguably, 2002)...

The whole bit about RMS's attempt to hijack the name is that someone else
beat him to having a runnable OS - badly - and he's trying to recover some
shred of dignity.
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From: jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:01:18 -0000
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