Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:14:07 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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On Thu, 02 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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.
Yoohoo. Linux is what makes GNU run nowawadays, because GNU has not yet brought out a stable release kernel version. When's GNU HURD due again? GNU is what munches away more disk real estate for a mere localization than the whole NetBSD system, isn't it?
Enough ranting, GNU is useful and has many useful projects, and having a philosophy and some tools to make it tasteful is much appreciated. But please take your "Linux is actually GNU+Linux" noise elsewhere lest you want some idealistic person like yourself distribute an non-GNU operating system that is made up of Linux, Linux tools and BSD utilities. Admittedly, bootstrapping without GCC will be a harder part of this project, but it's certainly doable.
Tell the press, but not the Kernel hackers. They know they use GNU stuff when they type gdb or man ls.
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