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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...<BR>
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Guys & Gals: Do I have my history right on this?<BR>
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There's a pretty good (IMHO) film on this topic that can be found for streaming on Netflix "REVOLUTION OS". Good stuff!<BR>
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RinL<BR>
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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 12:47 -0500, leam hall wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Rich Faulkner <<A HREF="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</A>>
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>> 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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