On Thu 01 Jul 2004 06:55:14 NZST +1200, Timothy Musson wrote: > Chad, 2004-06-30 17:36:22: > > As for GNU, Linux makes use of GNU tools the compiler and various > > other utilities and FSF ideas. But much of the OSS software (Kde, > > Gnome, OO.org, TheGimp) seems to have been developed firstly for Linux > > rather than GNU and should linux not have existed I'd doubt much of > > that software would. > > The GIMP and GNOME projects beg to differ: > > "The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program." > -- The very first sentence at http://www.gimp.org/
Sorry you're wrong there and the above is misleading. The gimp started as the *general* image manipulation program, most likely primarily on Linux, but I believe also on Solaris. It became a GNU project only much later, at which point the name changed to *gnu* image manipulation program. I can smell some politics there... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
