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In article <36A8B800.DF85C991@urbanophile.com>,
Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com> wrote:
>Peter Seebach wrote:
>> The point being, that's a system you can use because Linus had a vision of
>> having a complete O/S that was free software.

>Could you please provide me with a reference to back up that statement? 
>From what I have read, Linus started writing his kernel to get around
>limitations in Minix.  To the best of my knoweldge, Linus has never created
>or distributed a full operating system.  Nor has he ever stated a desire to
>be in that business.

He has created a project which can be found as a distribution.  The GNU
project didn't make Red Hat any more than Linus did - but Linus was the one
who made Red Hat possible.

Yes, GNU makes them all possible - but it also makes NetBSD possible, and it
makes NeXTStep possible.  gcc is a very powerful tool.  But it doesn't make
the O/S using it a GNU operating system, and it's not reasonable to
retroactively claim that this was the GNU operating system all along.

-s
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