Re: [tlug] Re: Gentoo ebuild for XEmacs-21.5

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

On 3/17/08, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 17/03/2008, SL Baur <steve@example.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Make no mistake, Richard M. Stallman is a brilliant software architect.
>
>
> I've not ever made that mistake.
>
>
>  >  As to actually writing code, he is useless
>
>
> I'll qualify that a bit:
>
>  "As to actually writing maintainable code, he is useless..."
>
>  I give him massive amounts of credit for creating an Open Source
>  userland with which the Linux kernel could be mated. Though he'd hate
>  the use of "Open Source" as opposed to "Free Software" in the previous
>  sentence.

Bah!  Unix was a great system because it had lots of small tools.  I rewrote
most of them long before there was any GNU just to practice my C programming.
I wrote a version 7 Unix conformant libc for early PC DOS portable to two
different C compilers of the time.

Why does GNU suck so badly?
Hint:  What should the output be when you type "true --help" on the command
line?"

>  Currently, I think he's doing more harm than good. But I am One Man,
>  and I have not Done Shit in The Great Scheme of Things, so by my own
>  naming scheme, I am a Jackass Who Should Shut The Fuck Up (JWSSTFU).

Again, yes.  Sadly, it's been that way for a long time now.  Er, why
the bitterness?
It's not exactly like you are alone in your (correct) opinion.

> Where are you currently? I think we were speculating Somewhere In The
>  South Pacific last time we were reminiscing about The Good Old Days of
>  TLUG.

A few miles down the freeway from other-Steve-san, in Milpitas.  I'll next be
home in Manila sometime in May though I do not believe my wife will want to
timeshare me.

Bi-ru, kudasai and please pass me some of that kaki-furai over there. Domo.

-sb