Re: Bug#149345: misc fixes for GNU/Hurd support
* Anthony Towns writes:
> I'm sorry, but you simply do not get to have it both ways. Either Linux
> systems are an implementation of the GNU system that happens to have a
> Linux kernel, or "GNU/Linux" is an entirely unjust publicity stunt to
> promote a completely separate system.
Linux is just a kernel, that uses the parts of the GNU system to
work. Thus GNU/Linux.
> In, short, stop trying to promote the Hurd as "*the* GNU system",
> either deliberately or by habit. Treating Linux as the misbegotten
> half-brother of the Hurd isn't remotely fair on all the work -- all
> the GPLed free software -- that's been done or being done on the
> only GNU variant that's actually ready for prime time -- least of
> all when huge amounts of that work are directly helping the GNU/Hurd
> project. See also the bolded nonsense in the third last paragraph of
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
The GNU/Hurd _is_ the GNU system. GNU/Hurd means the same thing as
GNU, only that GNU/Hurd is more descriptive.
--
Alfred M. Szmidt
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