Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:35:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Dale Scheetz <> | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system |
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I have found this thread to be, for the most part, very interesting and informative. This probably stems from the fact that my only experience with operating systems (including Unix) before discovering Linux, was as an outsider, and I hated it. RMS on the other hand, probably doesn't really need a tutorial on the similarities and differences of Windows 95 and the HURD. In fact none of this discussion speaks to his origional quest. RMS has seen disunity amongst the various Free Software communities, and from some of the aggressive language used by participants in this thread I would have to agree with him. The method he used to try to unify these groups is very remenisent of the womens movement attemp to change thoughts by changing language, ie. changing chairman to chairperson etc... It was always my view that this was working at the wrong end of the stick, and had RMS looked at the similarity in the two positions he might have chosen a different tack. The point is, however, that none of this got any of us talking about how we could cooperate better on the various connectednesses of GNU and Linux. More cooperation between these two groups can only benifit everyone.
Parity on Dudes,
Dwarf
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