Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by enriquto on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:25PM (#18086020)

I'm a bit sad when I read the url of this post.

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by jolmg on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:31PM (#18086096)

why?

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by rahiel on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:46PM (#18086240)

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by enriquto on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:39PM (#18086172)

because open source, that's why

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by linuxasheviller on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:06PM (#18086461)

Open source advocates love GNU too, even if the love doesn't go both ways.

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by jhibbets on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:11PM (#18086525)

Open source solves a business problem and would NOT exist without GNU or free software. Here's a good read about the term open source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by 51lver on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:32PM (#18086098)

y2k was a long time ago and y3k isn't our problem. :p

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by jolmg on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:27PM (#18087331)

It was a good guess. I hadn't noticed, but it's a bit ironic that after y2k, we're still making our software work with 2 digit years.

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Re:Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later by kardos on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:51PM (#18087526)

Some of us might live to see y2.1k

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