On Tuesday 01 June 2010 20:14:59 you wrote: > On 06/02/2010 07:57 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > the link has relevance and interest to the list - it has been posted by > > many people on most of the LUG lists in the country. What I took > > exception to is the idea that by constantly renaming things, one can > > change their nature. Let us face facts - the GNU project did not write > > the linux kernel, and no amount of name changing is going to change that > > fact. > > > > I am not a fan of the name but that's a weak argument IMO > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html >
basically RMS was miffed that he could not write a kernel and linus did - so he wanted a share of the credit. So he demanded that the word 'GNU' be added. But for those who do not know the history, the word 'GNU/Linux' implies ownership of linux by GNU. This also could be fair enough (although rather childish) as long as Linus agreed to it - he did not. anyway, for any usable distro one needs not only GNU, but also BSD - like fedora would be junk without python - apache (httpd, subversion, etc etc) , MIT licensed stuff and about 30-40 other licenses. So would it make sense to call it GNU/BSD/APACHE/MIT/Linux? Everyone wants credit no? oops, python, git et all are all written in GCC - so let us give them the credit - GNU/Python, GNU/Git ... -- regards kg http://livejournal.com/lawgon _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
