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[ale] Time to stir the pot
- Subject: [ale] Time to stir the pot
- From: lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey Myers)
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:43:30 -0500
- In-reply-to: <1325701451.1814.22.camel@ubuntumate>
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Rich Faulkner wrote:
> 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!
One is pretty much useless without the other.
>
> 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 <mailto: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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