Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/4/05, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > 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. > > [jumping in] > > Perhaps in a parallel universe you were talking about GNU/Linux. In > this universe, you said: > >> Linux is not really a program in the usual sense. > > Richard retorted: > >> It is a program, in the usual sense of the word. >> You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind. > > And you countered: > >> Looks more like a collection of services to me, somewhat like a >> library. > > So definitely you were talking (or at least, you were *writing*) > about Linux, not GNU/Linux.
That definitely was what the original argument was about. But in my reply to Sascha I pointed out to him that his way of applying the term "a program" to Linux would fit GNU/Linux quite as well. Which did not really serve to render the view he claimed to support more plausible. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
