Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:28:21 -0000 (GMT)


On 22-Dec-98 Richard Stallman wrote:
> I ask people to use the term "GNU/Linux", in order to help inform
> other people about the history of the operating system in question.
> Many people think that the development of the system as a whole
> started in 1991, when Linux was written. Actually it was started in
> 1984 by the GNU project.

no, we should all call it IBM/Linux
after all, it started when IBM released the IBM/PC
that was before GNU

close, but no cigar!

--
simon :-)

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