[HECnet] TCP/IP experts?

[Cory Smelosky]

On 16 Feb 2013, at 20:14, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
The GNU project would never borrow userspace code.

Careful here -- a lot of the original Gnu code was borrowed.   Gnu Emacs was a rewrite Goslings (CMU) Emacs.    gdb was based on Mark Linton's pdx/dbx from Berkeley.      The Gnu dialector is based on something I wrote at UCB and that Dan Klein would rewrite (we do get credit).  

I was just restating what some of the vocal proponents often proclaim.   

Glad you did actually get credit, what license was your stuff released under?


Simply, there is a bunch of the Gnu original code that has hazy provenance.    Sadly, I have been part of the some the torts associated with some of these.   But no one should try to say they are holier than anyone else.  

I based my comment on how they always go on about how they're going for "freedom" and "clean-room implementations"   It doesn't surprise me at all that they can be rather two-faced.


That said, my experience is that by the 1990s the Gnu project was better about understanding provenance, but in the 1970s and 1980s, they took what ever they could get.

I would agree there.   I was referring to the current FSF-lead RMS army, not the older project.


Clem