Re: [Geoff Kuenning <address@hidden>] Re: undeniable bug in /usr/bin/spell

[Miles Bader]

Geoff Kuenning <address@hidden> wrote:
> The statement in the last line is false.  Given the history of FSF with
> respect to ispell, I have trouble calling it anything other than a lie.
> Ispell is not "the GNU interactive spelling checker".  I permit FSF to
> distribute it, despite their insistence on being difficult and
> uncooperative.  But it is completely false for them to imply, as does the
> above statement, that the program has any connection to GNU or to FSF.

Lest anyone take Geoff's flame too seriously, here's what www.gnu.org says
about ispell:

   Ispell is a program that helps you to correct spelling and typographical
   errors in a file. When presented with a word that is not in the dictionary,
   ispell attempts to find near misses that might include the word you meant.

   We use Ispell as part of the GNU system but Ispell itself is not a GNU
   program.

The misattribution is apparently Mandrake's doing.

-Miles
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