RMS Talk at University of Toronto Mississauga

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/6/07, David Tilbrook <dt-hKuJ9UrQZDM at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > On 7/6/07, tleslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yeah, and C and Unix came out of Kernighan, Ritchie, Pike, and Bell
> > Labs.  If inspiration is supposed to be rewarded with getting your
> > name in the OS, then it seems way MORE dishonest to leave them out
> > than to leave GNU out.
>
> What happened to Ken?  and UNIX existed long before Pike got to 1127.

Oops.  That seems to illustrate the point, that it's not too difficult
to leave deserved credit out even by accident.
-- 
http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html
"...  memory leaks  are  quite acceptable  in  many applications  ..."
(Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists