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Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)



On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:03:10AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> "GNOME is the GNU desktop project, building a complete, free user-friendly
> desktop for GNU and GNU/Linux (and UNIX), so that all computer users have
> freedom"
> 
> I don't think that "GNU and GNU/Linux" was any ambigous in that sentence.

This could also have been understood and intended as "GNU" (the project) and
"GNU/Linux" (the variant of the GNU system), without any reference to the
GNU/Hurd system at all.

It's a nice anecdote, but it has little to do with what we need to decide
here.

Thanks,
Marcus

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