Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:51:44 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux in the News: BBC |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Paulo Andre' wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:56:51 +0000 > Andrew Walrond wrote: > > >Short, but interesting... > > > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2680955.stm > > "Linux is the creation of Finn Linus Torvalds, who built the free > software around work done by the Free Software Foundation and the > venerable, and powerful, Unix operating system." > > Good to see the press giving credit where credit is due with no need for > silly naming extensions. > > ../Paulo
You know that this is actually wrong. My privileged sources show that Linus Torvalds is actually a virtual reality creation of the GNU invasion from the planet, Ort. Although the Ort seeds were first discovered in the snow near Helsinki, Finland, a mentor by the name of Richard Stallman nurtured these buds to become, what is now known world-wide as, GNU/Linus. When GNU/Linus created the world's most revered Operating System with the help of several hundred on the web, it became known as GNU/Linux, after it's creator, "web". There is, currently, a move on to change its name to GNU/WEB to more closely show its origin, but some of the original developers are still trying to keep Linux in the name.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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