On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 02:48 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > Personally, I think the demand by Stallman, and others to call Linux > > 'GNU/Linux' is just stupid and childish. > > What exactly is it that you don't want to call "GNU/Linux"? What pieces of > software does it contain? > > Is Udev part of what you call Linux? udev is not a GNU project. > Is Yum part of what you call Linux? Yum is not a GNU project. > Is Apache HTTPD part of what you call Linux? Apache is not a GNU project. > Is Sylpheed part of what you call Linux? Sylpheed is not a GNU project. The reality is that a modern Linux distribution contains code from the *BSD projects, from the Apache project, from ISC, and from a ton of other projects and groups. Should we call it "GNU/Apache/BSD/Kitchen Sink/Linux?" That's just silly. The core of the distribution is the kernel, called Linux. It is perfectly fair and reasonable to call it plain old "Linux." I don't really get riled up at the folks who write it as GNU/Linux, but I think they are being silly, and not attributing all the other fine projects which have contributed code. Thomas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
