Re: GNU/Linux

Jason Slagle (raistlin@tacorp.net)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 15:44:39 -0400 (EDT)

You know what pisses me off most about this thread?

RMS's elitest "I wrote all the free software so put my name on it"
attitude. Sure, he did something great, started a free software movement.
BUT, that does not entitle him to world domination. Linux is not the only
OS using GNU components. Most EVERY free OS uses gcc, and quite a few
commercial ones do (ie: BSD/OS). It is just plain SILLY to see him think
that because we use ls and stuff that are licensed under the GPL, that we
should put GNU in the name of the operating system.

Jason

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Jason Slagle                        
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On 4 Apr 1999, david parsons wrote:


> >separate issue of licence under the copyright, for all categories but the
> >last.  But when we come to real credit for the Linux achievement we should
> >admit that Linux would not exist without the last category.  Let me make
> >that plain: Linux would not exist without Richard Stallman.
> 




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