Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:13:39 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Calling the operating system just Linux confuses most users--anyone > who doesn't have a real firm understanding of the difference and > relationship between the whole system and the kernel. These people > see statements about "Linux", some of which refer to the kernel and > some of which refer to the whole system, and they don't realize that > not all the statements are talking about the same thing.
Well, if you instist on making the additional requirement that anyone using GNU tools must add GNU/ to whatever they produce (I see that nowhere in the GPL, BTW, where did that requirement come from?) I think you may find that it is a temporary problem and people with either endevor to make other tools without such restrictions or port existing tools without such restrictions to their systems in order to be truely free.
George Bonser
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