23 Jan
2023
23 Jan
'23
9:32 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, Steve Nickolas wrote:
I've dealt with fanboys telling me how to do GPL on my own stuff, and it
left a sore taste in my mouth. I don't care about the stuff I *use*, but
it did leave me very negative about the GPL itself, and if it seems that
some of the OS-building stuff I've been talking about here and elsewhere
has anything to do with a grudge against GNU,...well...it does.
Still, GNU does seem to have more respect for precedent than a lot of
johnny-come-lately coders trying to reimplement stuff themselves.
-uso.
I think there was one particular dc clone...guy
whose name started with
a G? and his version did that.
On my ancient MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2010, High Sierra 10.13.6):
mackie:~ dave$ dc
(^D)
mackie:~ dave$ dc -V
dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
On my ancient FreeBSD server:
aneurin% dc
(^D)
aneurin% dc -V
dc (BSD bc) 1.3-FreeBSD
Nil prompt in both cases.
Most Linux versions use GNU's which Does The
Right Thing®™©.
Perhaps so, but I try to avoid using Penguin/OS and GNU... I don't like
its licence conditions ("free" it ain't), and I would rather write my
own
libraries than be constrained by Stallman's conditions.
-- Dave