On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:05:55PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Um, no. You just don't understand the FSF's position. The FSF's > position is that there is a specific operating system, called "GNU". > There is this related thing, called "GNU/Linux", which is a variant of > the GNU system in which the kernel is Linux. > But if you try to make a variant of the GNU system in which the kernel > isn't even free, you've stripped out an essential part of the GNU > system, so that the result is not even a variant of the GNU system > anymore. But what a twist it would put on the expansion of the `GNU' acronym...! :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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