[TUHS] Gnu/Stallman (was Bugs in V6 'dcheck')

Phil Garcia wrote: I've always wondered about something else, though: Were the original Unix authors annoyed when they learned that some irascible young upstart named Richard Stallman was determined to make a free Unix clone? Was he a gadfly, or just some kook you decided to ignore? The fathers of Unix have been strangely silent on this topic for many years. Maybe nobody's ever asked? Gnu was always taken as a compliment. And of course the Unix clone was pie in the sky until Linus came along. I wonder about the power relationship underlying "GNU/Linux", as rms modestly styles it. There are certain differences in taste between Unix and Gnu, vide emacs and texinfo. (I grit my teeth every time a man page tells me, "The full documentation for ___ is maintained as a Texinfo file.") But all disagreement is swept away before the fact that the old familiar environment is everywhere, from Cray to Apple, with rms a very important contributor. Doug