Don't forget that the reason why GNU won out over BSD is that the homeless man had already found out the hard way not to start off with someone else's code even

Don't forget that the reason why GNU won out over BSD is that the homeless man had already found out the hard way not to start off with someone else's code even if you intend to change all of it. Remember Gosling[0] EMACS? [0] Funnily enough, James Gosling also made Java, which is why I suspect the FSF was so ready to pounce on "the Java trap".