From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RMS speaks, 2005 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:14:40 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87eh4i15p2.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389219315 24922 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 22:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:15:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 23:15:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W11PH-0003ae-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:15:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W11PH-0003mN-1Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:15:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:teVJ2JUVGaG4bW6mo3+UGlMrIBY= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203042 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95311 Archived-At: I just found a very interesting interview with RMS in an issue of, eh, "EuroHacker Magazine" - ... "Eurohacker" ...? That sounds like a typical immature ezine of the 90's, but it is actually from 2005. As for the immature part, some of the questions are out of their depths, put it that way. They mention Emacs as the flag ship of the GNU project, which is one way of looking at it, if you look for a piece of technology/software at a very high level of everything you would look for in software. If you were to put a single GNU project in a museum, I'd pick Emacs. But if you think of what influenced the computer world the most I think the C compiler and gdb rank higher. It is difficult to envisage the Linux project without gcc, for example. On the other hand, lots of GNU tools are very low-key, and that doesn't make them any less indispensable: what about ls, df, and all those? Anyway, here is the interview. Enjoy. http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/EUROHACKER/ISSUE2/a05.html -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573