The GNU statement was badly worded - all I was trying to do was link Stallman to FSF and GNU so folks know who he is. From the www.gnu.org web, the correct wording is:
"The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX"; it is pronounced "guh-noo.") Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as "Linux," they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems." However you word it, Linux users use a lot of GNU software and Stallman made that possible. Regards, Greg King > Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:04:11 -0600 > From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Upcoming CUUG events > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:32, Michael Gale wrote: > > I do not think the person meant that their OS is completed, even > > Richard Stallman uses the phrase "GNU plus Linux" and has made more then > > a few comments alone the lines of hurd not being completed and that they > > are using the Linux kernel. > > > > They most likely meant that their OS is completely Unix style. Which > > would not imply that is it finished. > > unless they changed how English works while i was out of the country > (stranger > things have happened), that would not be the common reading of that > sentence > as it was written. at best it's very poorly worded and misleading; at > worst > it's just plain innacurate =) > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
