On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:34, Arlie Capps wrote: > The ego of RMS is indeed huge, but I'd say he, and the GNU project in > general, deserve a lot of credit. Personally, I don't use the term > GNU/Linux often because I'm lazy, but it is correct to refer to the > kernel as Linux, and the OS as GNU/Linux.
What bugs me about the whole issue is that a typical Linux distribution contains more than just a Linux kernel and GNU. Some of the major ones with different licenses include X, Apache and Perl. Should we call it GNU/X/Apache/Perl/Linux? There's a whole lot of GPL and BSD code which is not GNU software but nobody's clamoring about their software not getting its name in bright lights. It is unfortunate that the two get confused but I don't think GNU/Linux is the answer. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
