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?
This release is really bad publicity, I think, and it does go well with what "people say". This is the first instance that somebody actully says it has happened to him. (That I know of)
Question: Why would this redhat employee wish to weaken RMS?
Emacs/XEmacs seems the most similar previous case to this, but I could be wrong.
Do you know more? Who, where do they claim this?
I too would like to know.
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
Reinhard Mueller reinhard.mueller@bytewise.at writes:
Actually most of glibc was originally written by Roland McGrath, who was paid by the FSF to do it, AFAIK.
Right. This is from GNU's Bulletin number 4, published in February 1988;
Roland McGrath, who contributed a great deal to GNU Make, has a nearly complete set of ANSI C library functions. We hope they will be ready some time this spring. These join the GNU malloc, regexp and termcap libraries that have existed for some time. Meanwhile, Steve Moshier has contributed a full series of mathematical library functions.
And then in number 7, published in June 1989;
Roland McGrath has been hired for the summer to complete the ANSI C library which he started.
Drepper is first mentioned in number 19, published in June 1995.