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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <8584@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 13:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 13:46:00 1987
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> > A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
> > program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.
> 
> It's not only less charitable, it's dumb.  Having met Richard and dealt with
> him technically (although not a lot), I'd bet he *could* write a small
> program...

Actually, having said as much in private mail, I might as well say it in
public:  Stallman *is* quite competent -- I may question his judgement but
not his ability -- and certainly could write a small program to save his life.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry