Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat (OSNews)

Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat (OSNews)

Posted Sep 17, 2003 4:13 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat (OSNews) by hp
Parent article: Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat (OSNews)

A Google Groups search seems to award the honors to Jim Winstead, then at Harvey Mudd College. His comment was in reference to the release of Linux 1.0, in 1992: see.

RMS might have used it in 1998, in private. In any case the notorious net.kook Erik Naggum posted it in reference to the Emacs 20.4 release, toward the end of that year. My use was in April of the following year, and people were quoting RMS saying it a few months later.

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