Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:51:07 -0500 | From | Mark Mielke <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:22:27PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > ... > So much for tha absolute bullshit that GNU started Linux and that > there is somehow a GNU/Linux. Most all of the early distributions > used programs ported from BSD. The Linux-BSD emulation was so good > that most programs needed to only be recompiled.
> That, ladies and gentlemen, is the true history of the "Linux Operating > System" with all of the components that RMS insists are his, actually > coming from the University of California, Berkeley.
> Don't be bambozzled by the persons who will re-write history to glorify > their accomplishments. Saying something over-and-over again doesn't > make it true. Facts stand alone. They only need to be noted. Bullshit > needs repeating.
Heck, even glibc was not used by most distributions before a few years ago.
mark
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