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While on the topic, this came up last night.... |
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http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#1 |
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1. Origins Of The 'GNU/Linux' Naming Debate |
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18 Jul - 30 Jul (41 posts) Archive Link: "Alright, I give up. What |
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does the "i"in "inode" stand for?" |
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[http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.2/0864.html] |
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In the course of discussion, Rob Landley confessed to being the cause of |
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Richard Stallman's crusade to call Linux 'GNU/Linux'. Kelsey Hudson had |
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remarked earlier, "as much as i respect the guy for his contributions to |
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the open source movement, i can't help but ask myself why he's such a |
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baby about the little things like that." And Rob replied: |
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//Spider |
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begin quote |
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:00:45 +0200 |
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Fredrik Jagenheim <humming@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:49:00AM +0200, Spider wrote: |
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> > Now, making this the holy war that we are ungrateful bastards who |
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> > steal the hard work from the GNU foundation and use it to promote |
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> > our own selfish selves ... ermh. |
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> > should we perhaps place the gratitude to all developers directly |
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> > there as well? hmm... |
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> I just witnessed this flamewar on another mailinglist, and one of the |
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> better comments about this whole mess was that it's quite interesting |
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> that RMS demands that GNU is used in the name, while refusing to give |
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> credits to the BSD people: |
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> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html |
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> My personal opinions? It may be GNU tools, but the barebones are |
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> Linux. I may not call Windows 'KRNL32.DLL', but I don't call it |
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> 'Visual C++' either. Perhaps the answer to what I'm running on this |
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> machine is neither 'GNU/Linux' or 'Linux', but 'KDE'. |
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> //Humming, trying to avoid bringing a can of gasoline to the flames. |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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