On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:33:16PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > That's fine with me. At least I'll have a lot more leisure when using > > an available product instead of re-inventing the wheel. Even RMS used > > commercial software when the GNU software for it was not yet written. > > With your logic he would have written the Hurd kernel and gcc, libc, etc. > > before using a computer. And of course he would have written it in > > machine language since there was no sufficiently versatile free C > > compiler available. > > Software always used to be free. That changed, but RMS didn't > change. I don't what software he used to write parts of GNU, but it > could have been free, there was enough free software at time. Oh, and > 1) the Hurd isn't a kernel 2) RMS has never written anything of > it AFAIK.
1) Okay, right, Mach is the kernel used in the Hurd.
2) I did not say he did. But he should have done it if he is really
using only free software.
Apart from this I am giving up. My time is limited. Think whatever you
want about me but please send polite emails to Debian users if they just
have a problem with a non-free product they are using on Debian. If they
run Debian they are probably already on the right track.
cu
Torsten
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