18 Sep
2017
18 Sep
'17
12:43 a.m.
On 9/16/17 9:43 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I stand by my comment. I'm friends with the
Cygnus folks, they would
tend to agree with me I think.
All that stuff you listed, can you list the things that the GNU/FSF
people have funded? Because I think there is close to nothing. All of
that stuff is stuff that came under the GNU umbrella but they didn't do
the coding.
Is that the only criterion? Whether or not someone got paid directly by
the FSF to do something? Because there are lots of tools that were
originally written by people funded by the FSF and then handed off to
people like me: volunteers who donate our effort.
I give credit to RMS for the GPL, that was cool. But claiming credit
for stuff that GNU/FSF didn't do was not cool.
Denigrating the work of volunteers who explicitly donated their effort
and talent to the FSF is not cool.
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