On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:04:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
I think you're very confused, but I'm not going to feed your discussion
about this. I'll keep calling things just how I feel they're correct.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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