RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

[John Cowan]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Some of us have other goals.  My principal goal in writing GNU Emacs,
> GCC and various other programs was to produce a complete free
> operating system, so that we could have the freedom to form a
> community.

A complete free operating system *of sufficiently high quality*
(not the highest possible quality, but better than Windows, anyway).
Otherwise, any old hack would have done the job.
 
-- 
	John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan at ccil.org
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
			-- Coleridge / Politzer