19 Nov
2018
19 Nov
'18
8:06 p.m.
On 11/19/18 1:13 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Jon Steinhart wrote:
It was an explicit goal. From the GNU manifesto:
"GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix.
We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience
with other operating systems."
and
"Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The essential features
of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks
without spoiling them."
Of course, one man's graceful extension is the next man's graceless
pillaging.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Chet Ramey wrote:
Yes, that's would have been very reasonable. Improvement is in the eye of the beholder. RMS
and other folks consider
info, with its hyperlinks, indexes, and tree-based navigation the superior
alternative. Not just different, but better.
So were it me, I would have looked
at the current culture in the UNIX
environment and figured out how it gracefully extend it for new
functionality.