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Article #4321Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Wayne Brown
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:10
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:10
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In comp.unix.admin Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> RMS would like to call the conglomeration of "Linux plus other stuff"
> by the name "GNU/Linux," thus asserting that such conglomerations are
> somehow intellectually "owned" as concepts by the "GNU Project."
> I don't think anyone (aside from the Jay Maynards of the world despise
> _anything_ the FSF does) would have any great problem if the FSF
> decided to release a distribution called GNU/Linux.
> For Red Hat to call their distribution "Red Hat Linux" is their
> choice, just as other naming choices by others that have collected
> packages together are their assorted choices.
I agree with everything you've said here -- including the parts I
snipped. My first Linux Distribution was Yggdrasil LGX, which stood
for Linux/Gnu/XFree86. That is a perfectly reasonable name for a
distribution, as would be "GNU/Linux" from the FSF. It's when Stallman
tries to coerce everyone into calling *any* Linux-based system "GNU/Linux"
that I get disgusted with the whole situation.
--
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