Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Jay Maynard
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:11

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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:56:45 GMT, Isaac <isaac@latveria.castledoom.org> wrote:
>As I understand RMS's position, he's saying that Linux based systems
>(no flames please) with all of their non GPLed software on them, are 
>exactly the system he envisioned way back when.   He envisioned 
>a free kernel with a bunch of freed unix like utilities + X + Tex,
>etc. 

This is hijacking the Linux system as much as he claims that including the
so-called "Free Software" folks in the Open Source movement hijacks them.

>Of course he probably imagined that he and his staff would write the
>kernel.  If he had managed to complete it even during the period
>where Linux kernel based distributions were becoming popular, I think
>more people would have been willing to agree with RMS that Linux systems
>were simply GNU systems with a different kernel.  It's still possible
>that some of those who currently disagree that there was such a thing as
>a "GNU" system of which Linux is simply one example, might change their 
>minds if the Hurd distributions become useful.

I'll agree that, whenever the Hurd becomes something other than a system
hacker's toy and thus non-vaporware for real world use, it'll qualify as a
GNU system. That will change neither the fact that Linus beat the FSF to it
by a decade, nor the fact that trying to browbeat people into calling it
GNU/Linux is just wrong.

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From: jmaynard@thebrain.conmicro.cx (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:11:59 -0000
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