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Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: jmd
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:34
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In comp.unix.admin Jay Maynard <jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:44:43 +0000 (UTC), jmd@arse.net <jmd@arse.net> wrote:
>>Almost everything in the distribution is covered by the Gnu general public
>>license. 

> I'm sure the XFree86 Project will be surprised to learn this...and the
> Apache developers, and Sendmail, Inc., and many other developers.

>>Therefore, the system should be called GNU and not GNU/Linux.

> As an exercise in reductio ad absurdum, you've succeeded: this conclusion is
> plainly absurd.

Of course it's plainly absurd - it's supposed to be. The whole goddamn
thread is plainly absurd, but still it comes.

Jack
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
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