On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:48:59 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Wasn't it Linus Torvalds who said Linux is not Unix?
I don't know if Linus said that, but when Richard Stallman started the GNU project in 1983, he said that GNU stood for "GNU's not Unix". In case you don't know, the GNU project built an operating system that was missing one critical component, the kernel. Then along came the Linux kernel, which, combined with the components built by the GNU project, made for a robust operating system that most refer to simply as "Linux". Some others, most notably Stallman, insists that it should be called "GNU/LINUX". I do not wish to detract in any way from the work that Mr. Torvalds has done or the importance of the Linux kernel. Without his kernel, the GNU operating system would be nowhere today. Still, without the components of the GNU project, the Linux operating system would be largely useless. By the way, both GNU and the Linux kernel are free software, licensed under the GNU General Purpose License (GPL). The GPL was created to ensure that the GNU operating system would remain unencumbered by proprietary licenses. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
