On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:37:23AM +0000, Cormac McClean wrote:
> I'm not sure I go along with the use of the GNU for
> Linux... except maybe in the case of DEbian
> GNU/Linux.
> In fact, if anything should be prepended to Linux, it
> should be Ong/Linux: Ours, Not Gnu's!
You and many others don't go along with it. In fact, I don't call it
Gnu/Linux either, but that's out of pure laziness - I know I should.
However, the fact remains (and it is a fact - whether or not the system
should be called Gnu/Linux is debatable, but what follows is not) that
without RMS, the FSF and all the GNU software which has been developed over
the years (for the tiniest example, the C compiler without which there would
be none of the other software) there would be no Linux, Gnu/Linug or LiGNUx.
Regards,
Niall O Broin
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