[ale] Time to stir the pot

[rfaulkner at 34thprs.org (Rich Faulkner)]

If memory serves, Richard Stallman started the GNU Project out of his
days at MIT and UNIX.  He never (until recently?) had a kernel for his
work though.  GNU Project provided bits and pieces of the pie but never
the kernel.  This is where Linus and his tweaking of Minix fell into
place but well after RMS got his work going.  The relationship of
GNU/Linux is a marriage more than a following of coat tails that I'm
aware of...

Guys & Gals:  Do I have my history right on this?

There's a pretty good (IMHO) film on this topic that can be found for
streaming on Netflix "REVOLUTION OS".  Good stuff!

RinL


On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 12:47 -0500, leam hall wrote:

> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
> > wrote:
> >> And yes, I too think it should be called a GNU/Linux system....
> 
> 
> I cannot disagree more. I don't change the name of my car model
> depending on which gas station I stop in, nor do we buy houses based
> on the tools used to build them. RMS' insistance on GNU/Portapotty
> crap just makes him look little. Why not be proud of the cool work GNU
> has provided instead of trying to ride Linus' coat tails?
> 
> Leam
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