Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system | Date | Sat, 09 Mar 1996 08:06:49 -0500 | From | Joseph Dickson <> |
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> And it is also > right that a computer running Linux should be called a Linux system as > well as a computer running Windows 95 is a Windows 95 system. It is > just a little unfair. >
RS> I think Windows 95 includes a lot besides the kernel. Aren't there RS> tools such as the program manager and file manager, and many DLLs?
True - and there is also licenses software from many other such companies that are part of the Windows 95 distribution. Check it out - half the system utils, Bill's team didn't even write =)
Here's my two cents (or less) worth on the whole thread... I love GNU stuff, and love the ideals of the GNU licensing stuff.. But, was the ideal of "Give credit where credit is due, even if it means renaming your operating system" at the real heart of what inspired the GNU project and associated spinoffs? I'd truthfully be very interested to hear what Linus thinks about the whole thing, other than off topic noise that I'm now contributing too. :P
Cheers and Such,
Joseph Dickson Dreamist!merlin@amscons.com
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