Le mercredi 02 mars 2011 à 23:22 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : > 2011/3/2 André Salaün <[email protected]>: > > > > But using only Linux because it is "common" for > > uninformed people is simplistic ; as we say in French : > > « l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions » > > « the road to hell is paved with good intentions » > > > > Furthermore someone (like me and some others perhaps ) can be > > interesting in « popular education » (éducation populaire) and > > relations between free software, free sciences free... > > Oversimplification of the word is always oversimplifaction of the > > concept. Even if it seems to be easier I see that as a fault. > > I have seen the history of GNU and Linux and their "marriage" (because > the GNU people did not have any simple and free kernel for their > software). So, from my point of view there's a good chance that Linux > could have grown to a full operating system even without the GNU > project.
The gnu project provided lots of software, some quite unavoidable like a compiler, a standard library, or stuff like screen, gettext and slightly low level tools ( binutils, coreutils, etc ). > On the other side nobody could tell if the GNU project would > have survived without Linux. Both thoughts are speculations, of > course. > > But would a GNU/Linux naming policy not neglect the merits of all the > other projects who actually made the "Gnu/Linux" system a real usable > package? Imagine a distribution only supplying Linux and what remains > from the GNU project (especially Emacs) - would any user actually use > it (except developpers and "tech freaks")? I doubt developers would use something without gcc ( granted, there is pcc or llvm ) and without a libc ( granted again, someone could use a alternative like dietlibc etc ) > I serioously doubt that > this kind of package would never have made it out of the university > and research labs environment, let alone conquer the business world. Some people did it : http://www.skarnet.org/poweredby.html ( and some would say that this is almost done for http://openbsd.org/ , since the compiler is near 1.0 : http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110223045047 ) -- Michael Scherer
