> >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
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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
 
 
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