[ale] Time to stir the pot

[Geoffrey Myers]

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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