On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 03:41:11PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: [...] > Actually, someone already has shown us how to do it better. His name is > Linus Torvalds [...] I don't know what your aim is. I have the impression that it's just arguing for arguing's sake [1]. My time is too short to take part in this. From time to time you mix blatant falsehoods like the above (Linus wouldn't have got anywhere with his kernel had'nt he had at the time a whole free toolchain (C compiler, linker, build tools like Make, etc.), a whole user space (shell ls, cp, sed, you name it), all courtesy of the GNU project (he acknowledges that, you seem to ignore it, either by lack of research or by malice, I don't even want to know at this point). This is how free software works: you use things out there and build other things for others to use. *YOU* decide what *you* build. *OTHERS* decide what *they* do with it. So simple. You seem to have a beef with that. You can keep your beef. All of it. I'm out of this thread. [1] in the classical sense of "trolling", as per Wikipedia: "In Internet slang, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community [...], with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses,[2] or manipulating others' perception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling -- t
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