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>>>>> "George" == George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

George> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Richard Stallman wrote:

George> Well, if you instist on making the additional requirement
George> that anyone using GNU tools must add GNU/ to whatever they
George> produce

Where did RMS write that? He wrote:
>Properly speaking, Linux is the kernel that Linus wrote. He started
> development of the kernel, so naming it is his prerogative.

George> is a temporary problem and people with either endevor to
George> make other tools without such restrictions or port
George> existing tools without such restrictions to their systems
George> in order to be truely free.

Yes, and I'll market and sell all your tools under the GNU name. You
wouldn't mind, would you?
Immanuel.


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