* 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]