Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Feb 2008 21:29 UTC
Richard Stallman, industry activist and founder of the Free Software Foundation has - once again - relinquished his role as maintainer of the phenomenally successful GNU Extensible, Customizable, Display Editor (Emacs). The news was slipped out on the Emacs developers' forum and Stallman explained his reasons in a later interview.
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2005-07-24
And if we could eat rocks, we could use them for food.
It's 2008. And we're still waiting.
The FSF has accomplished much, but has a penchant for laying claim to even more... while downplaying the significance of the projects which have accomplished what they failed to do, despite having a 7 year head start, in general, and a 1 year head start with HURD, in particular. Namely, getting a usable kernel out to crown their "GNU OS".[1]
Richard urges people to give his organization credit for its work, while failing to give others due credit for their amazing, and apparently supergnustical feats.
As Linus quipped the other day, "User space is **so** easy!".
[1] Work on GNU OS started 23 years ago, I believe. There was a failed attempt to adapt a kernel from a prexisting project. And work began on the HURD in 1990.
Edited 2008-02-27 01:15 UTC