Re: RMS comments: Gnome part of the GNU operating system.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.
My point was that IMHO RMS is asking for too much credit. The
statement that "In 1991, GNU was almost finished, lacking only a kernel"
is incorrect. GNOME has evolved since then as the desktop for example.
Similarly, as someone else has pointed out, the GNU system does
not have a GNU windowing system, typesetting system, etc. Debian
is not just GNU + kernel.
The GNU project has contributed a lot to Debian and they deserve
credit. We call it Debian GNU/Linux, for example. But there are lots
of other major contributors too. So let's not devalue their contributions
by promoting GNU too heavily.
Hamish, not merely hairsplitting at all. Sheesh.
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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