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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ;
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution
They will have no cl
They will have no clue that it is an OS unless we are VERY
explicit in calling it an OS. So we should refer to is as "the GNU
operating system".
Sure, there's no problem with saying "operating system" to help
clarify things.
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Bug-hurd
And now that we're about to release it,
Let me point out that we are not "about to release it" (in the sense
of a 1 year time frame). Lots of work still needs to be done for it
to be remotely usable for "normal people".
We don't even have a installer yet, or a recent snapshot that boots to
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On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 20:11 -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> The operating system we are building is called GNU.
I think I can now accept this, despite my previous posts. I think the
way to explain it is this:
Windows is an operating system, sometimes it is referred to as the
"Windows OS". A
The operating system we are building is called GNU.
Developing the GNU system is a big project.
It's called the GNU Project.
We developed many programs specifically for GNU,
and these are called GNU programs.
We developed some licenses, such as the GNU GPL.
But GNU is, first of all, the operating
