On 09-Feb-07, at 3:05 AM, Debarshi Ray wrote: >> Linus is another one of those "practical side" people, who >> had created Linux without any philosophy in mind. I totally agree >> that >> without RMS and FSF and GNU and all the "big picture people" we would >> not be where we are today but without "the practical people" we would >> all still be hacking on a huge bunch of loosely coupled GNU utilities >> wrapped around a commercial closed source kernel, waiting for GNU >> Mach >> to make an appearance. > > We still would have had the BSDs, I guess. So it still could have been > possible to use a completely free operating system. By the way Linux > can not be compiled without GCC, where G stands for GNU.
looks like the FSF cavalry has finally arrived -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
