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[ILUG] Very very OT

[ILUG] Very very OT

David Neary dneary at wanadoo.fr
Wed Oct 2 11:05:03 IST 2002


Rearranging mail so it makes sense...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Shirley [mailto:diamond at skynet.ie] 
> P.s. I work for a finnish company, and we all know linux came from finland,
> so this must be on topic, right?

Satelle, StevenX wrote:
> If you ask Stallman he'll say not. Only the kernel came out of Finland

Actually, Stallman will tell you that GNU/Linux is the operating
system, and the the Linux kernel makes up a small part of that.
And the Linux kernel (aka Linux) certainly did start in Finland.
Especially according to RMS.

Dave.

-- 
       David Neary,
    Marseille, France
  E-Mail: bolsh at gimp.org



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