>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> writes:
Andreas> * Michael Piefel (piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de) [010307 14:29]:
>> I feel that calling the whole thing Debian GNU/Linux is quite explicit
>> already. What more do you ask for?
Andreas> Now imagine debian gnu/openbsd or debian openbsd.
^^^^^^^
Sorry, I can't.
Andreas> the name debian gnu/linux allready implies that gnu and
Andreas> linux are only one of several different options.
Wrong. The name Debian GNU/*Linux* didn't "imply several different
options" for quite a long time, until GNU/Hurd appeared, of course.
That *GNU* is obviously (and not just to me) not one of "several
different options", but pretty much an invariant.
Bye, J
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