Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:11

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In article <m3ofdvcs5e.fsf@latakia.dyndns.org>, Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> wrote:
> 
> What I don't like is silly quibbling and grabbing at more credit than
> is deserved.  GNU/Linux sounds and looks like GNU Linux--which implies
> that Linux is part of the GNU project.  It is AFAIK not.  The GNU
> project did not write the code in Linux; it has, rather, spent the
> last more-than-a-decade writing the HURD.  Which might someday be
> useful, and could indeed be called GNU HURD, GNU/HURD. GNU^HURD or
> anything else.

   See http://linux.oreilly.com/news/linuxanatomy_0101.html

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