On 20/11/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/11/2007, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aside from the OS itself, I use (almost) exclusively free software (nearly > all GPL) on my Windows machine I don't refer to it as GNU/Windows. Why > should I refer to my Ubuntu machine as GNU/Llinux? rather than just Ubuntu > or just Linux?
Because GNU/Linux is the name of the operating system, not the applications you use on your desktop. By your own admission you use the Windows operating system with some GPLed software. So why would you call it GNU/Linux when you're clearly, as you stated, running Windows. -- www.dobo.urandom.co.uk ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
