MJ Ray wrote:
Joack@gmx.net writes:
Surely it istn't the usual way for rms (as was claimed) to get involved in other peoples projects, is it?
Question: was RMS originally involved in glibc?
Yes. From the ChangeLog.1 of glibc:
Tue Dec 31 03:38:30 1991 Richard Stallman (rms at mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Seems like he was involved _very_ originally :)
Actually most of glibc was originally written by Roland McGrath, who was paid by the FSF to do it, AFAIK.
From http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html :
"Free Software Foundation employees have written and maintained a number of GNU software packages. Two notable ones are the C library and the shell. The GNU C library is what every program running on a GNU/Linux system uses to communicate with Linux. It was developed by a member of the Free Software Foundation staff, Roland McGrath."
Reinhard