On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > > basically RMS was miffed that he could not write a kernel and linus did - so > he > wanted a share of the credit. So he demanded that the word 'GNU' be added. But > for those who do not know the history, the word 'GNU/Linux' implies ownership > of linux by GNU. This also could be fair enough (although rather childish) as > long as Linus agreed to it - he did not. > > anyway, for any usable distro one needs not only GNU, but also BSD - like > fedora would be junk without python - apache (httpd, subversion, etc etc) , > MIT licensed stuff and about 30-40 other licenses. So would it make sense to > call it GNU/BSD/APACHE/MIT/Linux? Everyone wants credit no? > > oops, python, git et all are all written in GCC - so let us give them the > credit - GNU/Python, GNU/Git ...
I find your reasoning very interesting KG. Stallman is loved like crazy in the OpenBSD circles for his sacrificial mindset and an overtly self effacing nature. ;) Long ago there was a very friendly chat between Theo and Stallman. The mailing list was big fun then. Nowadays we have to resort to some Tamizh serial instead for entertainment. I have seen old men who get litigous because they have energy; not the wisdom to pursue God and not the intellect to pursue science; and most do not have enough responsibility at home or work to serve society either. So they take to what gives them some belongingness. I think Stallman retired long ago from coding; he wrote gcc, gdb, emacs and a whole bunch of great stuff. Since then he has been evangelizing. In fact even in Hinduism you find that the truly religious don't go around preaching like Ravishankar... -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
