[PLUG] RMS and GNU/sink (was: systrace is cool)

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> (Why doesn't rms care about people saying GNU/BSD?)

Because BSD people are all too ready to brand anything that's GNU as
such when we install it. There are a few basic GNU utilities that
are part of the base system (notably tar, sort, compilation tools)
of NetBSD, and they live in a different module on the CVS server
(gnusrc, though checking out just src includes them).

RMS's argument, and it's not a totally invalid one, is that all
Linux distros around today should be referred to as GNU/Linux
because Linux is "just" the kernel, whereas GNU has provided the
entire userland. Obviously his code's more important, so it should
come first. ;^>

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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