Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:39:23 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
| |
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:14:20PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > GNU, the system we were developing, was most of the early GNU/Linux > system in 1992. GNU in 1992 included non-GNU packages such as X11, > and TeX.
Wow. That might be one for the quotes file:
"GNU ... was of the early GNU/Linux system. GNU ... included non-GNU"
Well, that certainly explains a lot. If you define GNU as "anything which might be found on a Linux distro including non-GNU packages", your position starts to make a certain twisted sense. Only one problem with that: if it wasn't GNU, it wasn't GNU, which means, Richard, you are crackin' smoke and may need a vacation. 19 years of hard effort is a long time, have you considered retirement? You've certainly earned it.
Oh, by the way, have you updated the GNU kernel pages to reflect the new proper name: Linux/Hurd? I'd really appreciate it if you could get to that. -- --- 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/
| |