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Article #4218Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Alan Coopersmith
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:46
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:46
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Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> writes in comp.unix.admin: |A car contains a very important (and vital) piece: the engine. |Without the engine nothing can happen. With only the engine, very |little can happen. However, cars are called "Corvette" and "Mustang" |and "Civic" and _not_ by the names of their engines (for those engines |that have names). Though the engine is a very complex system in its' |own right (and often contains other parts of a system, like its' own |cooling), it's still not a car on its' own. A car is not very useful without gasoline, just as most Linux boxes are not useful without GNU software. Yet we call the cars by the names their designers provided - it's not an Exxon/Corvette just because you use Exxon gasoline. Use of your product in a larger whole does not give you the right to rename the product, even if it is an essential component. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Alan Coopersmith alanc@alum.calberkeley.org http://soar.Berkeley.EDU/~alanc/ aka: Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8c9b,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c9b,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,7144e36039d56e89 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 1020c6,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1020c6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-12 17:46:16 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!agate!not-for-mail From: alanc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Coopersmith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux? Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <agnt8o$165j$1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <Xns922EAE616F7DFjasonbaugherpikeilus@209.242.76.10> <sm51yaaj8bu.fsf@cid.alcatel.com> <m3it3lluwp.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org> <sm5u1n5x93h.fsf@cid.alcatel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1026521176 39091 128.32.247.226 (13 Jul 2002 00:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Originator: alanc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Coopersmith)