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

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:21:53 -0500

In message <199812261908.OAA07552@psilocin.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman writes:
+-----
| If we must name the system to
| acknowledge all the contributing projects, we're going to end up with a
| decidedly Entish name. :-)
|
| The operating system should be named from the project that started
| developing it, the project that went beyond writing individual free
| programs. The GNU Project did this. We set the goal of *a free
| operating system*, dedicated years of strenuous effort to that goal,
| and in the process developed more of the system than any other
| project. We gave the system the name "GNU" (which is why the project
| is the GNU Project).
+--->8

And some years ago you gave us (i.e. the Linux community) to understand that
"the system" was to be based on the Hurd, and that we were at best
hangers-on. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that this is the core of
discontent: as if Andrew Tanenbaum were to suddenly start advertizing Minix
as "the forerunner of Linux".

| in a sense Linus finished it.
+--->8

Rather a late admission....

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