Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:52:48 -0800 (PST)

That may be, however a press confrence was neither the time nor the place
to argue about it.

Gerhard

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Tom Holroyd wrote:

> >> Richard Stallman stood up and insisted that
> >> Linux be called GNU Linux?
>
> You know, he was talking about the distributions and not the kernel
> itself. People tend to refer to RedHat's or other's distributions as
> "Linux"* when in fact "Linux"* refers only to the kernel. Stallman only
> wants the growing number of RedHat users and Debian users and SuSE users
> etc. to realize the fact that there is a lot more to a distribution than
> just the kernel, and that large, important parts of most distributions is
> GNU. So calling a Slackware CD "Linux" is technically incorrect (not that
> that will stop anybody from doing it).
>
> [By the way, feel free to delete everything from your system that says
> "GNU" when you do --version, if you don't like it.]
>
> * Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
>
> Dr. Tom Holroyd
> I would dance and be merry,
> Life would be a ding-a-derry,
> If I only had a brain.
> -- The Scarecrow
>
>
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gmack@imag.net


As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.




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