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Article #4315Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Ryan M. Golbeck
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:13
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:13
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Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net> writes: > I used to explain Linux to newbies by telling them the whole story of > how it started with Linus using Minix, and how he (and later others) > built the Linux kernel, and how they adopted the GNU tools, utilities, > and libraries to build a working system. However, since RMS started > his stupid GNU/Linux campaign, I've stopped telling people about RMS, > the FSF, or GNU at all. If new users are interested, they can dig into > the documentation and the source and find out for themselves. If they > don't, then they're left with the impression that Linus and his cohorts > did the whole thing. My answer to RMS and his credit-grabbing is to > avoid giving him credit even where he deserves it. As for the rest of > the GNU Project: I'll be glad to start telling people about them again, > as soon as they dump RMS and get a better spokesman. That is the most unfair attitude I've seen in this thread. You are treating this as if Linux was the only participant in this project. You are acting as if it was the Linux people who came along and said, hey, lets port glibc to Linux for our system. Instead of GNU saying "Hey, there's a free kernel. Lets modify our stuff to work with it to make a GNU operating system." Ryan -- Ryan Golbeck <rmgolbeck@uwaterloo.ca> GPG: 1024D/78916B84 -- 1B1B 2A87 3F00 A7FB 40F3 526D 36CF BA44 7891 6B84
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