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Not 100% sureNot 100% surePosted Jan 3, 2008 15:28 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)In reply to: Not 100% sure by mingo Parent article: Insufficiently free?
Contrast that with the following recent experience i had with FOSS developers who left Linux. I recently triggered a rather nasty bash problem (hung scripts) that i've seen for many years. I never actually realized that this was incorrect behavior, until i asked around. It turns out it was a long-standing bug in bash, but the current maintainer of GNU bash uses OSX so he never triggered it himself.Why do you think that this maintainer left Linux? Maybe he has always been a MacOS guy who came to free software because it was available there. In any case, if the GNU software was not available on MacOS X, would we have one Linux user more, or one bash maintainer less? Also, note that the issue that RMS discussed was his recommendations; one is usually much more circumspect about recommending something than about using something. The GNU recommendations about platforms explicitly state that GNU and GNU/Linux are most important, that one should test personally on these platforms, and that supporting other platforms is optional. Is RMS a hypocrite because the bash maintainer has not followed this recommendation?
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