Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:13:48PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:30:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> >> > Linux is not really a program in the usual sense. >> >> > >> >> > It is a program, in the usual sense of the word. >> >> > You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind. >> >> >> >> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> >> >> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program> >> > >> > Lets have a look: >> > >> > Operating system >> > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. >> > >> > In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software >> > [...] > [...] >> > ... and here we go, it's a "computer program" (what a surprise) -- >> > your second link. :) >> >> According to your reference interpreting skills, GNU/Linux would >> count as just "a computer program", too. > > Well, not one, many -- but anyway just "computer programs". > > Yes, that is exactly my point, I think Richard is right: > Linux is just a program "in the usual sense".
But I was talking about GNU/Linux. It seems you don't even get the difference we are talking about. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
