Gordon Messmer wrote:
It's not an either/or question. They are right that it is
inappropriate but in both cases, not just the straw man they set up.
Call it Fedora, call it freebsd, call it OpenSolaris, and leave
politics out of it.
I don't think that they're arguing at all that it's inappropriate to
call it GNU/Linux. They're illustrating that the argument which is
often used for calling a system Linux -- that GNU is a small component
of a typical GNU/Linux distribution -- is a ridiculous argument, since
Linux is a much smaller component of the distribution.
But it is equally ridiculous either way, when 80+% is neither GNU nor
Linux code. Calling it an xwindow system would make more sense. Or
perhaps a firefox/thunderbird/openoffice.org system - with most of the
other parts interchangeable.
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Les Mikesell
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