Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:38

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Quoth Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
>
>> If it was supposed to be a willing partnership, then we wouldn't see
>> the _demands_ at <http://www.fsf.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html>
>
> What part of:
>   We use Linux-based GNU systems today for most of our work, and we
>   hope you use them too.  But please don't confuse the public by using
>   the name ``Linux'' ambiguously.  Linux is the kernel, one of the
>   essential major components of the system.  The system as a whole is
>   more or less the GNU system, with Linux added.  When you're talking
>   about this combination, please call it ``GNU/Linux''.
> is demanding?  It all seems like a request (with a "please" even!) to
> me.

I've heard RMS telling passers-by that "calling `The GNU System' Linux
is incorrect; it probably should be `GNU/Linux'" enough times...

For someone not feeling particularly "demanding" about it, it sure
seems to occupy a lot of his time in public.

>> If that caused your brain to shut off, then I guess it must be a very
>> delicate "off switch."  I didn't associate anything at all with Hitler
>> or Nazi Germany.
>
> You made a comparison involving Nazi Germany, which is the basis of
> Godwin's Law, no?

No, I did not.  I did not compare anything at all to Nazi Germany.

You might want to read what I wrote again.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
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