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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:40:33PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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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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Stallman's claiming credit for all of Linux, anywhere it appears, just as |
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SCO is climing credot for all of AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and every other |
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proprietary Unix. None of the distributors you cite are doing that. |
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