On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:21, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> GNU specialises in software which is "necessary" and by 
> virtue of the fact that they did it first, no-one else has bothered with 
> replacements.
I am fairly sure that the BSD variant of uname is older than the GNU
version.

> > Debian, for example, would change it
> > in a flash if they disagreed.
> 
> Sure, they would happily rip out things that they disagreed with. 
> Despite their stance as GNU/Linux, they have carefully examined and 
> taken exception with the GNU documentation license. 
> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html
Exactly. I am glad we are agreed then :)

As an aside, I prefer the Creative Commons licence to the GNU
Documentation licence; it is simpler and it does not have the same
problems.

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Michael JasonSmith                                   http://www.ldots.org/

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