From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-27, CrudeSausage  wrote:   
   > On 26 Jan 2026 20:32:53 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 26 Jan 2026 02:38:18 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:08:50 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 1/25/2026 10:06 AM, Stallman Lackey Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud)   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> the great Dr. Richard M. Stallman   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He's NOT great, and he's NOT a Doctor.   
   >>>   
   >>> He's definitely not a doctor, but he did get an honourary doctorate. As   
   >>> for him being great or not, I will submit a question: would the world   
   >>> of technology naturally gravitate toward producing open-source software   
   >>> had it not been for Richard Stallman. There is reason to believe that   
   >>> Shareware would have existed even if GNU hadn't, but I doubt that would   
   >>> have resulted in a free operating system with its free set of   
   >>> applications, and the dogma that software should strive to open up its   
   >>> code.   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar   
   >>   
   >> In Stallman's world permissive licenses would not exit. Would Linux have   
   >> come about under a Zero-Clause BSD licese or did it need Rabbi Stallman   
   >> and his moral legalisms?   
   >   
   > I'm suggesting that Linux itself would never have been started had there   
   > not been GNU in the background serving as inspiration.   
      
   Agreed. I don't buy into everything Linux Torvalds has to say either, but   
   still he was vital in creating Linux, and GNU was instrumental in providing   
   what he needed to do that — despite what Stallman says and does.   
      
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