Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:10:36 +0000 (GMT) | From | Clive Messer <> | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system |
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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I would expect that most of the people who speak of "the Linux > operating system" think of this as just a minor lack of precision. > > But aside from being unfair (which by itself would not be worth > fussing about), it also tends to split the community and thus > discourage communication and cooperation. When the people who use > what is essentially the GNU system think of themselves as "Linux > users", and not as "GNU users", often they don't see a reason > cooperate with the people who maintain the GNU software. This leads > to version-skew and unnecessary incompatibility.
Who has rattled your cage, Mr. Stallman ? The above is another thinly disguised attack on H.J. Lu ? I rue the day when H.J. gives up the mantle of maintaining the library side of a Linux GNU based operating system. It is patently obvious that the pace of Linux libc development is too fast for a centralised glibc, completely aside from comments already made about the 'pride' certain developers/maintainers take in their code and their unwillingless to accept patches that do not conform to their own coding style, blah, blah, blah ...
> One way to help unify the community, and gently encourage more > cooperation, is to use the term "Linux-based GNU system" to > describe these systems more accurately.
From the style/tone of your last few postings I would have said that your intention was to alienate the Linux community. For someone so keen to encourage communication/cooperation, you sure do have a funny way of going about it.
Clive. -- C Messer. Epos Systems. UK. | <clive@epos.demon.co.uk> | "I pressed her thigh and death smiled." <epos@easynet.co.uk> | Jim Morrison.
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