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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: "Dammit Linus ! give it back" -- Andrew Tanenbaum ?
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Relf wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> You (DFS) replied ( to me ):
>> > "Cadged" means: to trick someone out of something they deserved.
>> 
>> "mooch" and "sponge" are the most appropriate synonyms for what they did.

GNU code contains not a speck of UNIX code. They rewrote it from scratch.

> Where did you "steal" "Cadged" from ? do they want it back ?!
> Are they annoyed by your constant "mooching" ?!
>
> --  I spoke "Atlanta", my PieceOfSh*t app wrote "Alabama";
> one day, I'll have a better SpeechToText app.
>
>> > Ideas are not like candy, you can't "steal" them from a crying baby.
>> 
>> [ GuhNoo stole the names & functionality of existing Unix features.
>> Then they trademarked, "GNU is Not Unix". ]
>
> "Stole" ? really ?! as if Andrew Tanenbaum ( of "open" source MINIX fame ),
> looked in his vault, 1987, Amsterdam, & proclaimed:
> " Dammit Linus ! give it back. ".
>
> -- " Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed "
> said "Stallman the mooch".

DFS whines like a 56K  modem.

-- 
You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt
is concerned.