Re: A matter of manners

[Bas Wijnen]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:04:40PM +0100, Daniel Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 12:18 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > with the consequence that no 
> > > other car manufacturer can name their car a Focus. So if you refer to the 
> > > car as a Focus, it is implicated in the inforamtion that it is a Ford. 
> > 
> > This is an interesting point.  There is AFAIK indeed no other operating 
> > system
> > which uses the Linux kernel, so people who say they use Linux are almost
> > certainly using a (modified) GNU operating system.
> 
> Well Linux is used in embedded systems without GNU quite a lot isn't it?

I'm not sure about how it works on embedded systems, but I assume they at
least use GNU libc, which to me is about as impressive as the kernel.  It
could be that that's the only part of the GNU system they use though.

> Also in the future a very strange person may choose to port a BSD to run
> on top of Linux and create BSD/Linux. (I assume this is not done because
> either the BSD guys disapprove of the GPL or they consider Linux
> inferior to their own kernel.)

Or both. :-)

> This alone I feel is a good reason not to
> use the word `Linux' to mean anything other than Linus and co's kernel.

Thanks,
Bas

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