Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 2006-08-26 23:52:40 -0400 suse@rio.vg wrote:
But what did this guy really do? He fixed a couple of bugs and through a tantrum when most people clicked the free download versus the paypal button. His code was also built upon the shoulders of others: the hundreds of programmers who wrote the linux kernel and xorg server. Both of which he has gotten to use for free.
WTF, please don't talk about things that you don't know about. He wrote a lot of code before he suffered Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. For example, he wrote the original version of GCC and the GNU version of Emacs among other things.
Wha? I think you're confused. You're thinking of Richard Stallman. The guy in question here is Paul Drain, whom I believe suffers from cerebral palsy, if I remember from reading the page this morning. Paul Drain is in his 20's. Are you saying he coded emacs from his crib? It will be a cold day in hell before Richard Stallman renounces free software because a bunch of people clicked on the free link instead of the paypal one. Nor is RMS in the habit of throwing public tantrums.