Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:05:36 -0500 Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:37904 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:05:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:14:07 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Message-ID: <20030104221407.GB30907@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030101084621.00cdf9f8@pop.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1397 Lines: 30 On Thu, 02 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote: > If you want to avoid predictably steering readers into confusion, each > time you say (in one way or another) that Linux was developed by Linus > Torvalds, you need to explain that Linux is one component of the > GNU+Linux system which is what users typically run. Yoohoo. Linux is what makes GNU run nowawadays, because GNU has not yet brought out a stable release kernel version. When's GNU HURD due again? GNU is what munches away more disk real estate for a mere localization than the whole NetBSD system, isn't it? Enough ranting, GNU is useful and has many useful projects, and having a philosophy and some tools to make it tasteful is much appreciated. But please take your "Linux is actually GNU+Linux" noise elsewhere lest you want some idealistic person like yourself distribute an non-GNU operating system that is made up of Linux, Linux tools and BSD utilities. Admittedly, bootstrapping without GCC will be a harder part of this project, but it's certainly doable. Tell the press, but not the Kernel hackers. They know they use GNU stuff when they type gdb or man ls. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/