Re: [Sheflug] Of the naming of Linux

[David Holden <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxx>]

Chris J wrote:
> There's been a quite long "discussion" that started in comp.unix.admin, and 
> was crossposted to a few other groups including advocacy and GNU groups 
> shortly after. In short, it started off as an innocent question "what's the
> difference between Linux and UNIX", and went downhill from there...
> 
> But it did raise a (potentially?) interesting question. As is known, RMS 
> would prefer Linux to be known as GNU/Linux, but many people seem to reject 
> that this is the case, citing that there is just as much, if not more, MIT
> -licensed/derived or BSD-lisenced/derived work. Counter points that Linux 
> would be nothing without GNU were countered that Linux could work without
> GNU, and thus it went on.
> 

Whether Linux can run without GNU or not, all the distributions I know 
GNU its pretty fundamental, so I'm with RMS although GNU/Linux is not 
exactly catchy :)

  Dave.





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