Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU TeX 0.80 (beta)

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From: Aaron M. Renn
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:00

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Rob Partington wrote:
> >                                      FreeBSD uses a comparable amount of FSF
> >code, but it's not GNU/FreeBSD.
> 
> I thought the point about FreeBSD was that it didn't use anywhere
> near as much GNU software as Linux did and that it is possible to
> have FreeBSD without any GNU software and still have a working system?

The point about FreeBSD is that is was never the free operating system the
GNU project set out to build.  FreeBSD grew out of a desire by different
people to take the existing BSD system and get it released as free software,
which is what they did.  This required replacing some components (such as
the compiler), which the FreeBSD project did.  They do use GNU components
and I presume other non-BSD software such as perl.  But that doesn't change
where FreeBSD came from, which is someplace completely different from GNU. 
This was a different project with a different vision and goal.

-- 
Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/

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