Re: [nottingham] info pages

From: Toby Jaffey (toby@earth.li)
Date: Sat 21 Apr 2001 - 17:17:27 BST


On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:45:32PM +0200, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > I use info because it is the FSF officially endorsed "replacement" for
> > ancient man pages.

> RMS says "Jump", you say "How high?" huh?

> I went to a talk of his at the Paris Linux Expo in February. He was
> less of a nutter than I thought he was going to be - it was a very well
> rehearsed talk.

Unfortunately, it seems to be the same talk, everywhere he goes. I've
seen transcripts of a few of his talks, they all seem like the one I
went to... a long potted history of the MIT media lab community, GNU
history, the same anecdotes etc.

> But no, curse the FSF, for trying to take away concise manpages that
> come in one page that you can easily search through for the one thing
> that interests you instead of having to decide which category everything
> is in.

WAHAY! Troff, we all love troff.

[snip]

> And I most certainly don't believe in blinding following things like you
> seem to with RMS. Get over it Jon :)

> oOoOo "The claw is our master." oOoOo

How apt :)

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