Linus for Man of the Century (the builders catagory) (fwd)

Linus for Man of the Century (the builders catagory) (fwd)

[Luke Davis]

I know this is goint to ern me some miled flames for posting something not
about blind access, but I think this deservs posting.

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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:30:36 -0400
From: Shane Henthorne <shane@mana.landofhaze.com>
Reply-To: General Linux Discussion List <LINUX-L@mana.landofhaze.com>
To: LINUX-L@MANA.LANDOFHAZE.COM
Subject: Linus for Man of the Century (the builders catagory)

     "I'd like to mention that Dalnet #Linux is trying to start a
     movement to get Linus Torvalds voted man of the century. The
     Concept is to have Time see a massive grass roots movement, and
     give at least an honorable mention to Linux. If we were able to get
     1 million votes for Linus, it would certainly get notice. That
     would be about 1 in 5 Linux users. The poll is here. We'll have a
     web page up hopefully tomorrow for it."

http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/time100poll.html is the URL for
voting.  Put Linus to the Builders and Titans category if you're going to
participate.

--
Shane Henthorne
<shane@mana.landofhaze.com>
http://mana.landofhaze.com

Re: Linus for Man of the Century (the builders catagory) (fwd)

[Chris Hofstader]

Hi,

I just couldn't help but respond to this one but before there was a Linux and
before Linus received any fame, there was a GNU at the vanguard of free
software.  Richard Stallman, rms to his friends, wrote emacs and insisted it
be free.

Since then GNU grew into the Free Softwre Foundation and rms remains its
president.  If one looks at the volume of software distributed on CDs labeled
"Linux" they will find that close to 90% of the source code comes from Project
GNU.  Programs we've come to rely upon like emacs, gcc, gdb, bison, bash and
many others are not Linux, they are GNU.

Those of us who use emacs-speak must remember that it could not exist without emacs.

cdh


Luke Davis wrote:
> 
> I know this is goint to ern me some miled flames for posting something not
> about blind access, but I think this deservs posting.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:30:36 -0400
> From: Shane Henthorne <shane@mana.landofhaze.com>
> Reply-To: General Linux Discussion List <LINUX-L@mana.landofhaze.com>
> To: LINUX-L@MANA.LANDOFHAZE.COM
> Subject: Linus for Man of the Century (the builders catagory)
> 
>      "I'd like to mention that Dalnet #Linux is trying to start a
>      movement to get Linus Torvalds voted man of the century. The
>      Concept is to have Time see a massive grass roots movement, and
>      give at least an honorable mention to Linux. If we were able to get
>      1 million votes for Linus, it would certainly get notice. That
>      would be about 1 in 5 Linux users. The poll is here. We'll have a
>      web page up hopefully tomorrow for it."
> 
> http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/time100poll.html is the URL for
> voting.  Put Linus to the Builders and Titans category if you're going to
> participate.
> 
> --
> Shane Henthorne
> <shane@mana.landofhaze.com>
> http://mana.landofhaze.com
> 
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