On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:53:58AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
Actually, I think the more interesting footnote is footnote #1 in
the
same document:
One example is the public outcry over NeXT’s attempt to make the
Objective-C front-end to GCC proprietary.
I think about this one a lot. There appears to be little surviving
documentation of this episode (some near-contemporary Usenet
references are all I've ever found) but it forms a key part of the
legendary history of the GPL and strong copyleft theory; the
possibility that Steve Jobs called RMS directly (in some versions of
the legend) makes it all the more colorful.
"Public outcry" is probably an exaggeration, with all respect to the
authors of the footnote (probably specifically Bradley :).
- RF