Re: TCPA/Palladium (moved from OT debian-hurd thread)

[Danilo Segan]

Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

> Because of the big players involved, GNU/Linux could survive the
> challenge (if it comes) and become a certified OS.  Or at least some
> restricted version could be certified.
>
> But the user base for GNU/Hurd is probably too small warrant a
> certification effort, and if a certified version wasn't available the
> user base would be so constrained that growing to critical mass would
> take forever.  Chicken/egg situation.
>  
Isn't it true that GNU (and consequently Hurd) wouldn't be touched by 
any of this? As Marcus already explained, FSF has always insisted on 
copyrights, so this should not be a problem for those actually using 
free software.

By the way, most of the users who call themselves "Linux users" are 
actually GNU users (most "desktop" users have not even seen the kernel, 
and don't know what it's for), and with appropriate tools they would 
never tell a difference between GNU(/Hurd), GNU/Linux, GNU/FreeBSD, 
GNU/Darwin or GNU/NetBSD (isn't someone starting this project in 
Debian?). Whew, I never knew myself there were so many choices if I 
didn't list them, some more stable than the others, but all useful to at 
least some extent.


Cheers,
Danilo