[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“If one follows a fork from it’s handle to its tines, you’ll end
up with an analogy of a project that splits in multiple directions.
However if you follow a fork from its tines to the handle you’ll
end up describing a unifying force across multiple projects. You’ll
end up describing the GNU project and the Linux kernel.”
“Yes, linux is forking, but not in the presumed
direction. Those of you who come to Linux from the Windows
world, or any world other than commercial Unix won’t understand
this, but Linux has been acting like a unifying force for almost
two years now, and the GNU project for even longer.”
“What was the first thing I did upon installing SunOS 4.1.4 (the
ultimate in Sun unicies) on my beloved Sparc IPC back in 1994? I
visited ftp.gnu.org and got gcc, flex, bison, gmake, emacs (I was
confused then), until /usr/local rivaled my /usr partition for
space used. And from other sites I got the latest X11 (and a day
later make world finished), tcsh, the latest bind, and the latest
sendmail.”