*** Matt,
With all due respect but you are rewriting history here. You did not
only get your facts wrong you also lacking respect to a person - even
if you do not like his methods - that has done a lot for the free
sofwatere movement.
Please spend some more time on Internet to inform yourself, and avoid
the Fox News approach. You are not doing yourself a favor.
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Le 19 déc. 2005, à 10:53, Matt Emson a écrit :
Why not put MacOS on the new hard disk you mentioned, and GNU
on the old one, and see how it compares to MacOS-X even under
the handicap of running from a slower disk.
Hate to get technical, but you are wrong to refer to LINUX as just
GNU. When
Linus Torvalds originally created LINUX, it was simply that - LINUX.
The GNU
part is almost entirely one man's folly.
Richard Stallman may want people to use his forced GNU when refering to
LINUX, but at a push it is GNU/LINUX. Almost the entire world actually
refers to it as LINUX. RMS argued that LINUX is a kernel on top of
which GNU
tools run - this is why he attempted to force the name as GNU/LINUX.
The GNU
part only exists in his and other GNU zealots minds though. Plenty of
other
OS uses GNU software - even MacOS X does - as GCC is entirely GNU. Some
hobby OS like Syllable use almost as much GNU software as LINUX does,
but I
don't see RMS forcing them to call it NGU/Syllable. In reality, he was
using
LINUX as a springboard for publicity, and perpetuating that is hurting
no
one, but kind of annoying if you know the history behind it.
Technically, the GNU OS you refer to should be GNU/HURD as that is
actually
a completely GNU Operating System.
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