[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

Neil Rieck n.rieck at bell.net
Sat Nov 18 11:47:38 EST 2023


On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 6:12:51 AM UTC-5, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 17/11/2023 21:06, Scott Dorsey wrote: 
> > In article <20231117130709.1798... at eircom.net>, 
> > Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste... at eircom.net> wrote: 
> >> On 17 Nov 2023 12:39:52 -0000 
> >> klu... at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> However, at some point the momentum built up until "Linux" as a concept 
> >>> took off, and then everybody kind of forgot about GNU and the GNU 
> >>> environment and philosophy... then they forgot about the Unix environment 
> >>> and philosophy... now it is just a mess. 
> >> 
> >> I suspect that Richard Stallman trying to get everyone to call it 
> >> GNU-Linux didn't help. 
> > 
> > No. In general, I think Stallman has done more harm than good to the 
> > free software movement in recent years. 
> > --scott 
> >
> Politics and ideology are always the enemies of sound engineering. 
> 
> -- 
> It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house 
> for the voice of the kingdom. 
> 
> Jonathan Swift

Time for me to kick in my own thoughts on this topic:

E.O.Wilson once said: Humans have Paleolithic Emotions, Medieval Institutions, and God-Like Technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s30m6Bpj2U

IMHO this explains a lot of stuff I see online, and off.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
https://neilrieck.net



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