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%% Jay Maynard <jmaynard@××××××××.cx> writes: |
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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 |
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>> > > programs that are not GNU software, programs that were |
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>> > > developed by other people and projects for their own purposes, |
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>> > > but which we can use because they are free software." - Richard |
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>> > > Stallman (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html) |
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jm> Stallman's claiming credit for all of Linux, anywhere it appears, |
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jm> just as SCO is climing credot for all of AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and |
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jm> every other proprietary Unix. None of the distributors you cite |
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jm> are doing that. |
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Please show me where Stallman is claiming credit for "all of Linux, |
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anywhere it appears". Certainly not in the text John quoted above. |
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In fact Stallman has _never_ claimed credit for Linux (the kernel). All |
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he has done is ask (not sue, but ask) that people use the name GNU/Linux |
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to reflect the huge amount of effort the GNU project has expended over |
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the years that make Linux distributions, including Gentoo, a reality. |
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You may not agree with that, but it's his right to make the request just |
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as it's your right to refuse... and no one is going to court about it. |
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And _no one_ is claiming ownership over things they don't own or didn't |
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write, so please drop the SCO flame-bait. |
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Here is what the quoted document actually _does_ say about Linux, BTW: |
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> Linux and GNU/Linux |
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> The GNU Hurd is not ready for production use. Fortunately, another |
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> kernel is available. In 1991, Linus Torvalds developed a |
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> Unix-compatible kernel and called it Linux. Around 1992, combining |
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> Linux with the not-quite-complete GNU system resulted in a complete |
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> free operating system. (Combining them was a substantial job in |
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> itself, of course.) It is due to Linux that we can actually run a |
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> version of the GNU system today. |
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> We call this system version GNU/Linux, to express its composition as a |
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> combination of the GNU system with Linux as the kernel. |
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