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Re: GNU/Linux Naming


From: mike3
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux Naming
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 11:41:49 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 9, 4:05 am, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> wrote:
> The GNU project named the system GNU, and that is why it should be
> called GNU, it is that simple.  If you create a deriviate of BSD, it
> does not magically stop being BSD.

So then the only really reasonably way to give credit is to use
the name GNU came up with, and that is, well, GNU. And, of course,
since the Linux kernel is used to turn the GNU into a complete
operating system, it deserves some mention too, hence GNU/Linux
as the name for these systems.


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