From the article: "His idea was to move from a model of erecting walls and poking holes in them for windows to an effort to build an entire house around the windows."
Which would seem more surprising if it weren't sponsored by a window company!
(1) A lot of the FSF argument is resting on the two meanings of 'operating system' - whether it refers to the kernel or to something like all non-application programs. While FSF prefers the latter meaning, when my prof talks about 'operating systems' in my OS class, she pretty much means the kernel. gcc, binutils, all the wonderful stuff GNU and others have built are amazing tools, but they're not the operating system.
If the debate boils down to a choice between these two meanings of OS, then there's no point in debating - no one is right.
(2) Just out of curiosity, if you count lines of code in the kernel vs lines of code of GNU tools, what does the ratio look like?
Excellent book. Quite readable, but not as
condescending or formula-averse as many layman-oriented science books. Used as a textbook in the best QM course I've had.
Also discusses philosophy of QM in fascinating detail.
Is there a way to see how many pages I'm currently viewing per month? A histogram
over time would be really nice.
Now if only you could count the amount of time
that I spend reading Slashdot when I should be working... wait, do I really want to know that?
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Which would seem more surprising if it weren't sponsored by a window company!
If the debate boils down to a choice between these two meanings of OS, then there's no point in debating - no one is right.
(2) Just out of curiosity, if you count lines of code in the kernel vs lines of code of GNU tools, what does the ratio look like?
Excellent book. Quite readable, but not as condescending or formula-averse as many layman-oriented science books. Used as a textbook in the best QM course I've had. Also discusses philosophy of QM in fascinating detail.
Is there a way to see how many pages I'm currently viewing per month? A histogram over time would be really nice. Now if only you could count the amount of time that I spend reading Slashdot when I should be working... wait, do I really want to know that?