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Whoohoo! Here we go. Someone please rattle his cage about the BK license and we can keep this going for months! This reminds me of soc.singles, a venerable hangout for weirdos of all kinds, yours truly included years and years ago. I once posted some inflammatory statement and disappeared to Japan for several months (installing a supercomputer at Tokyo Institute of Technology, look at the acronymn, gotta love it), and then came back. 3 months later. Read soc.singles. They were *still* arguing about it. Then and now, the thought that occurred was "get a life". On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:38:48PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Yup. It's high time they realized that Linux exists today solely because a > lazy Finnish student conned a bunch of folks into doing his homework. > ] > > That's a colorful way of saying that Linux was developed by Linus > Torvalds. If by "Linux" you mean the kernel whose maintenance is > discussed on this list, that is true. > > You're surely aware that when the media, companies, and users say > "Linux", they usually do not mean the kernel. They usually have in > mind an entire operating system in which Linux is used. This entire > system wasn't developed by Linus Torvalds--it is basically GNU, which > was started in 1984. The system exists because idealistic programmers > had a vision of a different kind of society and had the determination > to make it happen. > > If you want to avoid predictably steering readers into confusion, each > time you say (in one way or another) that Linux was developed by Linus > Torvalds, you need to explain that Linux is one component of the > GNU+Linux system which is what users typically run. > > For further discussion, and for responses to all the usual > counterarguments, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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