Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:17:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:16:14 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:37789 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:15:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:24:38 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Richard Stallman Cc: lm@bitmover.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Message-ID: <20030109232438.GH15590@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Richard Stallman , lm@bitmover.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200301050802.h0582u4214558@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20030106173705.GP1386@work.bitmover.com> <20030107142612.GO17602@work.bitmover.com> <20030108135109.GA8049@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1614 Lines: 34 On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:14:37PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > If we remove all the work that you did not do, then > it's vividly clear that Linux is a larger effort. > > If you assume that the whole system is Linux, and count every part > that isn't GNU software as part of the "Linux effort", then the part > you count as "Linux" will be much bigger than the GNU software, and > this will "prove" the assumption you started with--that the whole > system is Linux. And isn't that exactly the line of reasoning which leads you to the conclusion that Linux should be GNU/Linux? Why do you think that you deserve special billing ahead of anyone else? You haven't contributed any more than anyone else, that's for sure. GCC is nice and all, but by your own reasoning if GCC didn't exist, a different compiler would have shown up. The only reason they didn't is that GCC made that itch go away. It really seems like you are trying to leverage a comparitively tiny amount of source into top billing. Why are you more important than the entire windowing system, which is dramatically more source and more effort? And when are you going to start referring to your kernel by its proper name: Linux/Hurd? Or do you have plans to remove the Linux components? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/