Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU TeX 0.80 (beta)

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From: brlewis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00

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In article <yHzq2.637$NN.25380@ptah.visi.com>,
  seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:
> What bugs me is that I cannot, despite repeated efforts, come up with a
> *technical* justification for calling Linux a GNU system but not calling
> any of the other systems totally dependant on FSF code "GNU systems".

Because the Linux kernel is GPLed and the others aren't.  Is that a good
enough reason?

Alan Cox, the largest contributor to the Linux kernel, seems to attribute its
popularity to the choice of license.  Look up the following post on dejanews:

Re: Who has the hearts and mindshare of X developer Gnome or KDE?
Author:       Alan Cox <alan@snowcrash.cymru.net>
Date:         1998/11/17
Forum:        comp.os.linux.advocacy
Posted on:    1998/11/17
Message-ID:   <72sj8i$k9o$1@snowcrash.cymru.net>

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"It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the
readability, modifiability, and portability of its software."
                              -- Dennis M. Ritchie, September, 1979

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