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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:35 pm, Jay Maynard wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:12:10PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> > Because of this decision, the GNU system is not the same as the |
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> > collection of all GNU software. The GNU system includes programs that |
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> > are not GNU software, programs that were developed by other people and |
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> > projects for their own purposes, but which we can use because they are |
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> > free software." - Richard Stallman |
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> > (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html) |
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> This is as morally reprehensible as SCO's claim that anything any of their |
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> licensees wrote for their Unix distributions is part of Unix. |
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You realize that the only difference between that description and what distros |
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do is that GNU wrote more of the core OS? Are you going to apply the same |
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statement to Gentoo, RedHat, and all the other distros who have written even |
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*less* of their OS's software? |
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