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The GNU project was officially announced on 27 September 1983 by Richard Stallman. Thirty-five years of a project that has now become the fundamental building block of everything we use and see in technology in 2018. I would not be wrong to say that there isn't a single proprietary piece of software that anyone is still using from 35 years ago – please post comments if there is something still being used.
There is only one reason for this longevity: the GNU project was built upon the premise that the code is available to anyone, anywhere with the only restriction that whatever is done to the code, it shall always be available to anyone, forever. Richard Stallman's genius in crafting the copyleft license that is the GNU General Public License is probably the best hack of the 20th century software industry.
Extra: Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Friday September 28 2018, @11:45AM (5 children)
systemd?
Not that there's anything wrong with the BSDs. FreeBSD is all the good parts of Linux without the bad parts.
Given that his every utterance has been scrutinized like a supreme court appointment for a quarter century, I'm not sure a cherry picking expedition necessarily proves anything. Compared to, say, Jewish comedians on TV, he's actually not that foulmouthed, I've certainly heard worse. I mean, when someone sounds more laid back than Sarah Silverman, doesn't that make it inherently anti-Semitic to criticize Linus?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @05:39PM
Otherwise, FreeBSD wouldn't have known better, and wouldn't know which good parts to steal instead.
There are 2 kinds of Operating Systems: Those people bitch about, and those nobody uses.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday September 28 2018, @10:58PM (3 children)
1) Linus is Jewish? If I had been asked I would have guessed vaguely Christian, but I never looked for that info either. That whole line of thought on your part is offbase hypersensitive BS.
2) Regardless, I probably should have phrased the last sentence differently, it wasn't intended as a criticism of Linus, it was meant as a criticism of this (his abrasive style/language/personality) being the catalyst for this change and all its ramifications.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @08:17AM
No, ethnically Swedish but a Finn, if I recall correctly. So probably Some Kind of Lutheran, possibly a Papist, maybe a new age Crystal worshipper, or a modern human who is an atheist. VLM is just exercising his inner Nazi a bit more. With proper exercise, he will be just as much as a bigot as Ethanol_fueled, but not nearly as amusing. VLM need to go recode his own kernel, a pure kernel, one kernel to seek them all, one kernel to find them, one kernel to bring them all, and in the systemd bind them!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday September 29 2018, @11:51PM (1 child)
Less abrasive than Sarah Silverman so calling for him to be punished is essentially calling out (some) jews for being much worse....
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday September 30 2018, @03:36AM
RIF
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