On 11/10/06 21:48 +0000, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: <snip> > >"But Linus himself uses GCC to build the kernel.." > > Eh? Why can not Vihan say so? Linus Torvalds said he could not have > made Linux without GCC. He does say GCC is used to compile Linux. > Linus used GCC because it was the only free (beer) compiler available to him on a x86.
> >Yes, well the point is, to a layman, who is completely new to this > >world, the word GNU doesn't make any sense. > > Ok fine. So what makes sense? Linux? The X factor is it, eh? > > For all the reasoning, Linus Torvalds can be labelled as egoistic, if > one went by the anti-FSF lobby. After all Linus named the kernel after > himself, while Stallman never named GCC as 'Stallman Compiler Linus didn't name the kernel. He wanted to name it Freenix, the person sponsoring his hosting put it in a directory named linux (For Linus' Unix). > Collection', Emacs as 'Stallman Editor', and the Free Software > Movement as 'Stallman's Movement', and GNU as 'Stallman is Not > Proprietary'. :-) But many GNU people do think Linux sounds cool, so > why throw mud at GNU? But honestly, we aren't throwing mud at GNU. We are merely refusing to say GNU/Linux because it makes no sense to us. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
