Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:21:10 -0500

In message <9812241858.AA08392@pachyderm.pa.dec.com>, Jim Gettys writes:
+-----
| > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
| >
| > The system version most of us are using is the combination of Linux
| > and the GNU system. "GNU/Linux" is a good way to describe that
| > combination, and when I write that, it always means the whole
| > combination. The kernel is simply Linux.
|
| One might as well also say that the whole system should be called
| "GNU/X/Linux"; the X Window system contribution, in terms of number of
| lines of code of software, is very large. People should remember that
+--->8

And many of Linux's user-space networking utilities (and some significant
chunks of the kernel --- not to mention at least one SCSI driver and
probably other drivers) come from our colleagues in BSD development. And
then there's the Samba folks, etc. If we must name the system to
acknowledge all the contributing projects, we're going to end up with a
decidedly Entish name. :-)

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
     We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.






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