From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:16:22 -0500, DFS wrote:   
      
   > Stallman's code contributions (primarily to gcc, glibc, gdb and emacs)   
   > are nice, but even so: that code, a 'copyleft' license, and cloning Unix   
   > aren't achievements worthy of anything but 'Thanks!', and certainly not   
   > an honorary doctorate or hundreds of $thousands in awards.   
      
   gcc was languishing as Stallman added fortune telling to emacs. That was   
   his real project. Raymond used gcc as an example of developing software in   
   the cathedral where the high priest controls every nuance.   
      
   The Experimental GNU Compiler System forked off to work at a less than   
   glacial pace.   
      
   https://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.1/   
      
   FSF halted GCC development, made the EGCS people the maintainers of GCC   
   and by gcc 2.95 the projects had merged.  Stallman continued to screw   
   around with emacs.   
      
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