On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> >>> What do you mean "other than the Hurd"? >> >> I mean "except for the Hurd", "save for the Hurd", or however you'd >> like to phrase the act of taking a set with hundreds of elements, and >> applying the same predicate to all but one of them. > I don't mean the semantics, I mean philosophically. Why would you > except the one thing that deserves to be called GNU from this > discussion? Err... I don't know how you got this idea that GNU was supposed to be just a kernel. GNU is an entire operating system, that Linux developers happened to borrow to complete theirs, because all they had was a kernel. If someone not interested in the kernel Hurd shouldn't be interested in GNU or any of the GNU/Hurd distros out there, then someone not interested in the kernel Linux shouldn't be interested in GNU+Linux or any of the GNU/Linux distros out there. > And yet, there is still something that _IS_ the GNU project's OS, that > people can use if they want to use something named GNU. But, > overwhelming they pick some other project instead. Some other project that is nearly as much GNU, indeed. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
