Yeah, like, for instance, the mailing program you're using obviously has nothing to do with GNU...
The reason why we should call this a GNU system is that it is the GNU project is the reason why free operating systems are popular at all nowadays. Are you one of those people who thinks "Linux" popped up because Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel and then looked around for a userland to go with it and by pure coincidence he found everything he needed? *clue bat* That wasn't a coincident at all, it was a result of the GNU project, which was started back when Linus Torvalds was running around in diapers. And GNU/Linux is what has made free operating systems popular. And even though we in this case have chosen not to use the GNU Kernel (which, BTW, is called "HURD") nor the GNU C Library, we still have tons of GNU software involved. autoconf, bash, binutils, bison, chill, cpio, cpp, file, fileutils, findutils, gcc, info, less, m4, make, sed, shellutils, tar, etc. Not exactly small stuff. The Debian Project has chosen to associate itself with the ideals of the GNU project and develop GNU-based and/or GNU-like operating systems, and that's what we are doing here. We might as well say so. - Michael ===== -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/MU d- s+:+ a--- C++ ULISBH+++ P+++ L++(-) E- W--(+) N o? K? w--- !O !M V?> PS+++ !PE Y+ PGP- t+(-) 5 X R+>+++ tv-- b++ DI(+) D G e->+++ h r-- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
