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Dennis Ritchie Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the r-in-k-&-r dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Unix.se has published an interview with Dennis Ritchie (inventor of C, co-creator of Unix)." Not very technical, but Dennis shares his thoughts on GNU, kernel design, and more.

6 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's so off-topic it descends into the realm of complete incoherence. Or was that the idea?

  2. hi there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think you'll find slashdot much more useful if you learn to fucking read.

    Wait, no you won't.

  3. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't feed the trolls...

  4. Re:Ritchie's Plan 9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux is based on UNIX and C fucking idiotic arrogant peace of RMS shit

  5. Re:GNU's take on Licenses by leandrod · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    > As soon as RMS writes a license that allows for true "freedom" (ie, I can do whatever the hell I want with the licensed software, including releasing it under a non-GPL license), I will take his views on "freedom" seriously.

    I would rather not have you hoarding my own software and modifications of it, so I prefer GPL that helps keeping you honest.

    > Why should he be?

    Sorry, not enough context and I am feeling lazy today.

    > If RMS deems a license non-compatible with the GPL, then it is by definition not "Free"

    Not at all. GPL compatibility is certainly nice, but it isn't a requirement for freedom. And he never said anything the like, so you are putting words into his mouth. I would apologise if I were you.

    > I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure the Plan 9 license is officially recognized as an Open Source license.

    Check again, it is not OSD, DFSG or anything the like -compliant. It is not even free by your own definition.

    You are so misinformed you become libelous.

    --
    Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
    DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
    GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
  6. I can't read it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And I'm sure many others can't either, because the text size is in pixels! It's only 12 pixels high! The lower-case letters are only about 2mm tall on my Sun running at 1600x1200. The text is too large for my PalmPilot, so you have to scroll excessively. You have to save the page and then fix the text size so you can read it. I wish web designers wouldn't intentionally make their pages unreadable. As far as I know, the em size for text has existed as long as the pixel size. There is no excuse for getting this wrong.