gnu-misc-discuss
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: GNU/Linux Naming


From: Noah Slater
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux Naming
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:57:33 +0000

On 07/12/2007, Brian <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On  7 Dec 2007 at 18:30, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Focus.  You seem to confuse this thread with a general "bash GNU"
> > thread.  Your argument that the boundaries of an operating system are to
> > be defined by triviality was nonsense.  That you don't like cat's
> > options does not change that at all.
>
> No more nonsensical than your attempt to define the boundaries of an
> operating system to be the userspace utilities that GNU happen to have
> produced.

Yes, programs that are defined by POSIX as part of an operating system
interface. Of course they should be included.

-- 
Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/>

"Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]