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On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:


> Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
> leecher:


The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the 
design, names and functionality of Unix.


"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard 
Stallman Sep 27 1983


He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream of 
being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.