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Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by chrissmithuk on Thursday January 16, 2014 @05:57PM (#7073087)
This fundamentally goes against the Unix philosophy though which is to provide small well-defined parts from which you can construct a complete solution from.

If you need a complex manual for a complex program, something is wrong.

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Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by wfraser on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:22AM (#7075577)
"GNU's Not Unix."
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Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by morb on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:01PM (#7081605)
What does this even mean? The name GNU itself is a joke.

I mean, the project wants to create an operating system that looks like UNIX, acts like UNIX, smells like UNIX, but from scratch with appropriate license that allows usage and access to source to anyone - so that the project doesn't get into legal trouble from whoever actually owns UNIX?

So drunk Stallman in 1981 says: "hik, let's call this, hik operhikating system GNU, hik, because it's not UNIX hik, but it sure looks like one, hik, but it's not, hik, but it kinda is hik, but it's not theirs hik it's everyone's hik". That's how I like to imagine it happened.

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Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by chrissmithuk on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:39AM (#7075648)
Which is probably the greatest problem with it.
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