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|    Chris Ahlstrom to DFS    |
|    Re: Feeb Is Ungrateful    |
|    31 Jan 26 07:13:12    |
      From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us              DFS wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:              > On 1/27/2026 3:58 PM, Lying Larry Piet (aka Farley Flud) wrote:       >       >> FOSS is now, and has been for some time, unstoppable.       >>       >> Aside from a few, though somewhat significant, corporate holdouts,       >> most software projects are adopting FOSS.       >>       >> All of this freedom is traceable to one man, and one man       >> only: Dr. Richard M. Stallman.              That's silly (as expected).              > Can't believe you refuse to recognize Torvalds (and other important       > kernel contributors).       >       > Absent the working GPL Linux kernel, GuhNoo would still be sitting on a       > shelf collecting dust, and the popularity of FOSS (driven by GNU/Linux)       > definitely wouldn't have happened, and Stallman would be unknown and       > more broke than ever and still hustling a room and a meal from gullible       > idiots.              That's silly (as expected).              Note that the GNU utilities have been ported to many systems,       including Windows.              For me, Git Bash and Mingw are sanity-savers on those few       occasions when I boot to Windows.              > And then there's the app developers and distro makers who opened up       > Linux to the masses, including corporate data centers who wanted a       > reputable and reliable source for installation, support and repair (Red       > Hat firstly, then Ubuntu and Suse).       >       > So it was many many hundreds if not thousands of committed GNU / Linux /       > FOSS people that contributed to getting FOSS to where it is now.       >       > But then there's YOU, who "couldn't care less about the community."       >       > What would Stallman say if he knew what a phony wastrel you were? I       > think I'll make him aware of you and your bad attitude.              I doubt he'd give a shit about Fartley Fudd.              --       I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than       first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then       I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts')        -- Olaf Kirch              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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