Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:12:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:12:40 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:54963 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:12:35 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: lm@bitmover.com CC: lm@bitmover.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20030109232438.GH15590@work.bitmover.com> (message from Larry McVoy on Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:24:38 -0800) Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <200301050802.h0582u4214558@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20030106173705.GP1386@work.bitmover.com> <20030107142612.GO17602@work.bitmover.com> <20030108135109.GA8049@work.bitmover.com> <20030109232438.GH15590@work.bitmover.com> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:21:21 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1486 Lines: 38 And isn't that exactly the line of reasoning which leads you to the conclusion that Linux should be GNU/Linux? See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for our lines of reasoning. They show two different ways in which the GNU developers are the principal developers of the GNU/Linux system of today. You haven't contributed any more than anyone else, that's for sure. I won't repeat the facts I presented recently. GCC is nice and all, but by your own reasoning if GCC didn't exist, a different compiler would have shown up. There must be a misunderstanding because I never said anything like that. Some components of the system did just "show up", including TeX, X11, and Linux. But these did not make a whole system. If we had waited for everything to show up, we might not have it today. The reason we have a free operating system is because people were systematically and intentionally working to produce one. Those people were and are the GNU Project. Why are you more important than the entire windowing system, which is dramatically more source and more effort? X11 is a substantial component, but apparently not as big as our contribution, judging from Richter's count. - 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/