Hi Personal opinion only
On 20 November 2014 15:42, Felipe López <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to know what is > holding the GNU developers back from releasing the first version of the > GNU Operating System. > It was released in the early 90s, with the Linux kernel substituted for HURD. > why can't the resulting > distribution be called The GNU Operating System (or GNU, for short)? > Because this will incentivise people to say that that "Acme Linux", referring to GNU+Linux, "is not GNU, because GNU is only available from gnu.org" which would be misleading. "Acme GNU" or "GNU Acme" or "Acme GNU+Linux" are all the GNU operating system. -- Cheers Dave
