Re: RMS comments: Gnome part of the GNU operating system.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:48:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:07:59PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > >In 1991, GNU was almost finished, lacking only a kernel. Then Linus
>
> Really, GNOME was already written in 1991? News to me!
> Or isn't GNOME part of the GNU system?
Hairsplitting. You can't find any reasonable point to attack, so you grasp
at this little thing. You just want to bicker, and not contribute.
I hate it how the noise of the Debian lists goes up and up, and the signal
down and down.
Thanks,
Marcus
PS: The real explanation is that the core system was almost finished to be
usable by its own, independent from non-GNU software. Of course.
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