Veritable connundrums, Jim.. I shall digest over lunch :-)
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:13, Jim Cheetham wrote: > At one level, why a "GNU/Linux" group? If it's the GNU heritage and > philosophy that's important, why not just a "GNU" group - that would > then be truly cross-platform, as GNU software runs on all Unixes, > including Solaris, *BSD, Linux, and Windows (via cygwin especially). At this level, it is still beyond me & most newbies. It may follow. "Linux" is the 'market-leader' - but whose? SCO's? IBM's? Novell's?.. All of the above, plus us? Or mainly for & by us - we'll have to decide that. "It works" - for & by programmers. 95% of the market is waiting.. for a recogniseable brand. "GNU" is as helpless as "Linux" there. Beyond Mac there is ..? > And in this age of far-reaching communications, why just Canterbury, and > not the whole of NZ? (What do you mean, it's not in Auckland?) "think globally, act locally"? > -jim Rik -- InfoHelp Services http://infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 krnl 2.6.4-52-default SuSE-Linux-9.1 KDE/Konqueror-3.2.1 KMail-1.6.2 Mozilla-1.6 OpenOffice-1.1.1
