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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   
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