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Re: Bug#149345: misc fixes for GNU/Hurd support



* Grant Bowman writes:
* Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin@geekspace.com> [020609 18:20]:
>> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
>> > I feel that GNU by itself is too ambiguous.  Do you mean the GNU
>> > project?  GNU system?  If system, which one?
>> 
>> Just trying to understand where you're coming from...:
>> 
>> Do you also have this problem with other operating systems' names?
>> For example, "FreeBSD"? Does it refer to the FreeBSD project? The
>> FreeBSD team? The FreeBSD system? If system, which one?

> Just trying to understand where you're coming from...:

> Do you see a differences between the FSF and the FreeBSD teams?

Yeah, the Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises
funds for work on the GNU Project (quote from www.gnu.org).  The
FreeBSD _teams_ don't.  It is the FreeBSD Foundation [1] that does
that job (raising funds for the FreeBSD project).

[1]: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt


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