> >On Jan 31, 2007, at 20:52, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:21 am, John > Sonnenschein wrote: > >>> If Stallman and the rest of the FSF start > promoting Solaris instead > >>> of that other kernel, and they would if we went > gpl3, that would be > >>> more helpful to the project than any amount of > code or advertising in > >>> the world > >> > >> Yeah, right...I'll hold my breath for that... > > > >Actually I have had plenty of direct input from them > that suggests > >this is exactly what would happen. > > And this would matter how exactly? > > It's well known that there's a spat between Linux > (Sorry, GNU/Linux) > and the FSF; Hurd is the FSF's current OS and it is > going nowhere; > they'd be switching from Hurd to Solaris. Is that > the kind of company > we want to keep? > > Casper > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] >
So will Stallman ask us to call it GNU/Solaris? It obviously doesn't apply to Solaris since we have our own compiler, etc. and don't need GNU tools to exist (as far as I know). -Shawn This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
