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In article <DREIER.92Dec14235242@durban.berkeley.edu> dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier) writes:
>Sounds almost like the strategy that some folks (can't remember the
>name of the organization right now, sorry) used a few years back.  I
>seem to remember reading some "Manifesto" or something years ago,
>promising a free Unix clone; but it seems to just have turned out to
>be a scam for getting programmers to donate their code to this
>organization and gulling idealists into proselytizing their silly
>politics.

Ah, but this organization has already indirectly produced two Unix
clones: 386bsd and Linux.  What, you say?  FSF did not produce those
systems, someone else did?  Ah, but neither of those systems would
be usable without the Gnu tools, and, in the case of 386bsd, it was
the political atmosphere created by the Gnu project that led to
enough software being made freely redistributable so that it was
feasible for the Jolitzes to finish the job.

FSF evidently changed course from the original plan, concentrating
instead on building the world's best portable C compiler.  I think
this was good strategy myself, even if it makes it easier for their
opponents to make them look bad.

And as for your last sentence: if you'd read the Gnu Manifesto, you'd
know that RMS's intention was political all along.  For something to
be a "scam", it needs to be dishonest.  RMS told you his plan and
his program up front.



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