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to: RAGNAROK
from: DAN CROSS
date: 2020-02-11 05:39:00
subject: Re: Which OS would you pr

On 09 Feb 2020 at 02:06p, Ragnarok pondered and said...
 
 Ra> GNU/Linux

That was a construction by Stallman that was based entirely
on inaccuracies.  His contention is that Linux owes a great
debt of gratitude to the GNU project for ... something.  But
"Linux" refers to the kernel, not the userspace, and that
owes far more to Andy Tannenbaum and the 1127 crew at BTL
than to GNU or RMS.

Now particular distributions of "Linux" that contain a GNU
userland arguably owe something to the GNU project.  But
Linux itself, which again is simply the kernel, does not.

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