Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Steve Mading
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 23:46

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In comp.unix.questions Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> wrote:
: In article <ag5hak$gd7$5@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
: Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:

:>>> Being opposed to an awful name does not mean we don't want GNU
:>>> to have credit.
:>> You can call it just "GNU" if you think that is better... But like
:>> RMS wrote, it better to give credit to kernel too and call it with
:>> the name "GNU/Linux".
:> Nice trick.

: No trick, just plain reality.

Thanks for omitting the argument and not responding.
Do you call a wooden table "a wood"?  Do you call a
metal car "a metal"?  So why call a set of software
containing a lot of GNU a "GNU"?  Before I said the
name of a thing is the wrong place to put it's
bibliography.  Now I'll add to that that it is also
the wrong place to put the ingredient list, not even
the most prominent ingredient.

I think I'll take a sip of this water.  Okay, granted
it's got carbon dioxide bubbles in it, and "high
fructose corn syrup", and sugar, and other stuff",
but by your logic I should call it "water" instead
of "soda" or "pop", because the name of a thing
should be its most prominent ingredient.

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From: Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:46:21 +0000 (UTC)
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