Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

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Les Mikesell wrote:

A rare bit of honesty there:

  "In 2008, we found that GNU packages made up 15% of the “main”
  repository of the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution. Linux made
  up 1.5%. So the same argument would apply even more strongly
  to calling it “Linux”

You're reading it incorrectly, by leaving out the question:

   GNU is a small fraction of the system nowadays, so why should we
   mention it?

GNU is arguing, in the quote you posted, that if it is inappropriate to include GNU in the name for a GNU/Linux distribution, then it is even more strongly inappropriate to call it "Linux". Linux is a much smaller and less significant portion of a GNU/Linux distribution than GNU is.



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