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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Tom Holroyd wrote:

> >> Richard Stallman stood up and insisted that
> >> Linux be called GNU Linux?
>
> You know, he was talking about the distributions and not the kernel
> itself. People tend to refer to RedHat's or other's distributions as
> "Linux"* when in fact "Linux"* refers only to the kernel. Stallman only
> wants the growing number of RedHat users and Debian users and SuSE users
> etc. to realize the fact that there is a lot more to a distribution than
> just the kernel, and that large, important parts of most distributions is
> GNU. So calling a Slackware CD "Linux" is technically incorrect (not that
> that will stop anybody from doing it).
>
> [By the way, feel free to delete everything from your system that says
> "GNU" when you do --version, if you don't like it.]
>
> * Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

Just some stats on what one persons estimation was of the distribution
of code in SuSe:

Code Contribution Distribution for S.u.S.E. 5.2

Package Name: suse5.2.codd
Package Size: +514659722 bytes.

1.uncredited: 82733250 (16.075%)
2.free software foundation, inc: 51254116 (9.958%)
3.sun microsystems, inc: 38243234 (7.43%)
4.the regents of the university of california: 23581801 (4.582%)
5.x consortium: 18163125 (3.529%)
6.thomas g. lane: 8464917 (1.644%)
7.the university of washington: 7832780 (1.521%)
8.digital equipment corporation: 7206660 (1.4%)
9.snns group, ipvr, univ: 4366722 (0.848%)
10.aladdin enterprises: 4108079 (0.798%)
11.silicon graphics, inc: 3680070 (0.715%)
12.robert nation: 2465545 (0.479%)
13.maorong zou: 2438025 (0.473%)

Don't see much justification for calling it GNU/Linux.

Rest of the article at
http://www.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/03/17/1034201
for those interested in what I'm taliing about.


Stephen


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