At 27 Feb 2004 11:54:18 GMT, js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:

> I suspect that RMS has mental problems with withdrawing GNU tar

In English, the phrase "mental problems" connotes some degree of
insanity. I suspect that you didn't intend that, and that you
intended to say only that the problems with adopting star were all in
RMS's mind. If I recall correctly, though, there were some other
issues as well; it wasn't an issue of RMS's unexplainable fondness for
the old crufty code in GNU tar.

At any rate, I doubt whether any of those GNU tar issues would arise
if Sun wanted to donate its performance improvements to GNU sort.