Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--332266-I had never used UNIX before t/en

I had never used UNIX before that time. I was never a UNIX wizard and I chose to follow the design of UNIX for the exact reason that I've told you, not because UNIX was my favorite system or anything. Sometimes people write that it was changes in UNIX's licensing policy that inspired GNU. Well, this is not true; in fact, UNIX was never free software. They were more or less restrictive and more or less nasty about enforcing the requirements, but it was never free software, so those changes actually made no difference and, in any case, they took place long before I ever saw an actual UNIX machine.