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SubjectRe: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
I don't call Windows InternetExplorer. (oops, bad example :)

But I don't call UNIX cc or sh or in the case of [GNU/]linux after the
kernel.

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Jon Hamilton wrote:

>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812200033160.613-100000@vitelus.com>, Aaron Lehmann
> wrote:
> } I have to agree that it that GNU has little right to demand a GNU/ prefix
> } on everything that ships which contains their code, especially with their
> } very free license.
> }
> } However, GNU/Linux is really the correct terminology assuming your
> } distribution is half made up of GNU tools.
>
> I don't call my PC an "ASUS/AMD/AMI/Samsung/Intel" machine, do you?
>
> --
> Jon Hamilton
> hamilton@pobox.com
>


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