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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Viewing SSH users on VMS
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:39:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:20:59 -0400, Hunter Goatley wrote:

> Nor was it the reason 30 years ago when I tried repeatedly to feed my
> VMS changes back to GNU sed and GNU grep. They clearly were not
> interested in my changes, as they initially declined, then later
> ignored, my attempts, and I eventually stopped trying.

30 years ago would also have been when the Linux folks tried to do the 
same sort of thing, with their libc patches. And they were ignored, too.

They got their revenge by being so spectacularly successful, the GNU folks 
were ultimately forced to embrace them. And so we had the transition from 
the Linux-specific libc5 fork to the GNU-official libc6.