[thelist] Is this a list?

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at speakeasy.net
Sun Oct 2 12:01:38 CDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 15:05 +1000, Robert Gormley wrote:
> He doesn't refer to it now as GNU/Linux, he refers to it as
> Linux.

What is "it" here? You don't make that clear.

> Are you saying all the years he's being working on the project,
> giving interviews, referring to Linux, he's being intellectually
> dishonest and deceptive?

Referring to the Linux kernel only, that he himself wrote and later
others helped maintain? No.

Referring to the GNU/Linux operating system, of which the Linux kernel
is only a small (and in theory, quite replaceable) part? Definitely.

The Linux kernel *is* useless without an operating system for it to boot
into. That operating system could, in theory, be something besides GNU
(perhaps, say, a BSD-derived system), but in practice it hasn't been
done to my knowledge.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>



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