16 Sep
2017
16 Sep
'17
9:45 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 05:35:35PM -0400, Theodore
Ts'o wrote:
The GNU Project has a kernel, The HURD, but iirc, it's still as unusable
now as it has been for decades. Which is why Linux wound up being the
de-facto kernel of the GNU system, even while The HURD is still their
official kernel.
-uso.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:39:05PM -0700, Kurt H
Maier wrote:
As well it should be. My colors are showing here, but I'm really sick
of the FSF slapping their name on other people's work. If Stallman
wants it to be called GNU/Linux let him write a kernel. He didn't,
he can't, yet he wants credit. I got pretty disgusted back in the day
when everything that was GPLed suddenly became a GNU project. The GNU
guys have written very, very little code.
They are all about the license, which is fine, but I get off the bus
when they are claiming credit for work they did not do.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:15:32PM -0400, Steve
Nickolas wrote:
The use of "GNU" as in "GNU/Linux" is something that was pushed by
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and actively abosed, or
mostly ignored by the majority of the Linux community.
Isn't that pretty much just Lennart Poettering and his fan club?
It's right there in the name "GNU" as well. There's a whole
generation
of computer people out here for whom bash and gawk are fossilized in
their substrata, and they get mad when someone suggests maybe other
tools exist.