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In article <C0rqv6.vH@cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>RMS and the GNU people copy from the existing concepts -
>
>1. GNU emacs from Gosling's emacs

Wrong.  Gosling copied from ITS Emacs, which was written mostly by RMS.

>2. All other GNU utilities from existing Unix utilities.

You forgot gcc, etc.  And many of the ideas in Unix were copied from
Multics.  We all copy.  There aren't that many original ideas in the
world, and good implementation is at least as important as invention.
To repeat a quote that Mike Tiemann has used on this subject:

"If I have seen farther, it is because I stood on the shoulders of
giants." (Isaac Newton)

The idea is to construct a world in which we build on the work of others,
rather than step on each others' toes.

>This implies that there is no creativity in what GNU people do.

In many cases they are creating better implementations that have more
options, run faster, etc.



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