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In article <3NOV199113581633@minnie.me.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>In article <226@news.duke.edu>, magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes...
>>hmmmm i'm not so sure that we have a real disagreement here, just a 
>>misunderstanding... innovation is of course good: that is what we
>>like to encourage. but on the other hand, what i was saying is that
>>we want people to originate *new* things, not spend their time 
>>innovating things that have already been done... (is this a contradiction
>>in terms? :)) 
>
>This is exactly what GNU does not do.  It spends most of its 
>time reinventing programs that have been around for years.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but where did he say that he was an official
spokesperson for the FSF?

>What is this but reinventing the wheel, or "innovating things that
>have already been done"?  Even the GNU OS, when completed, will 
>merely be "yet another PC Unix".  Free, but not innovative.

What do you know about the GNU OS?  It has been the position (for
several years at least) that the GNU OS will be upwardly compatable
with Unix.  The fact that the first host to support it will likely be
a 386 does NOT make it a PC Unix.


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