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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To be fair, writing software such as compilers and debuggers and C libraries isn't the easy part of userspace coding and is arguably comparably difficult to kernelspace work. The tools that usually fill this niche on Linux are all from the GNU project.