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In article <1992Jan13.003932.19292@donau.et.tudelft.nl> reinoud@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (;R. Lamberts) writes:

   Why is typical GNU software a remake of something that has been around
   for a long time, preferrably for decades already? Isn't the FSF in
   an ideal situation to try something new in software, not facing the
   risks of a commercial enterprise?

Tee hee.  One of the most constant things we at the FSF hear is how
much better our software is than everyone else's.  Bison makes better
parsers; flex makes better lexers; gcc makes better code; the
{file,shell,bin}utils are faster and have more/better features; GNU
Emacs is far and away the best emacs out there.  GNU tar is
indispensable for many people's work.  GDB beats any debugger I've
ever seen before hands down.

And if we look at things in development, we've got the C interpreter.
When used with gdb and emacs it will provide you with an interactive
debugging environment more powerful than any Unix has ever seen.  The
C library will provide features and tools nobody has ever implemented
yet, will run on an incredibly large variety of platforms and
environments, and will include the latest and greatest math
algorithims yet.  The Hurd will provide OS features people have wanted
for years and never seen in any commercial products.  Tom Lord is
writing a graphics library that makes Phigs and its ilk look like
Logo.

The stunning thing, really, is how anyone can say that the FSF is just
trodding on well worn ground.  We have made so many advancements that
comments that we are just reinventing the wheel are ludicrous.

	-mib