Philip Tellis Wrote:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/25/161
> Interesting insights about licencing of the kernel.
Seems as if the FSF gained a control over Linus and
forced the name GNU/Linux.
What RMS said in his public lecture was, that they had
to build an operating system and they had started
developing components for it. They were left alone
without the kernel and luckily, they could find Linus,
who was ready to give away the source code of the
kernel he developed. Therefore, the GNU project was
successful in completion of an Operating System with
Linux as its kernel.
I had always thought of any Linux distro, the entire
operating system, as GNU/Linux and Linux as the kernel
of this OS. GNU/Linux because, most of the the
application programs that I used were "FREE" software.
For newbies like me, the above mentioned link would
resort to more discussions and arguments over an
active mailing list like GLUG-BOM!
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