On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:12:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:03:10AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > "GNOME is the GNU desktop project, building a complete, free user-friendly
> > desktop for GNU and GNU/Linux (and UNIX), so that all computer users have
> > freedom"
> >
> > I don't think that "GNU and GNU/Linux" was any ambigous in that sentence.
>
> This could also have been understood and intended as "GNU" (the project) and
> "GNU/Linux" (the variant of the GNU system), without any reference to the
> GNU/Hurd system at all.
He already referred to the GNU project in first sentence, then he listed
three OSes that GNOME is aimed at, in order of relevance. The second
reference to "GNU" seems like the OS to me..
Maybe we should ask him? :)
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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