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 More options Sep 13 1994, 1:17 am
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From: o...@pell.com (Orc)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:04:47 GMT
Local: Mon, Sep 12 1994 11:04 pm
Subject: Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support
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In article <1994Sep11.200842.22...@cs.cornell.edu>,

Matt Welsh <m...@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
>In article <CvvtAu....@pell.com> o...@pell.com (Orc) writes:
>>In article <1994Sep8.142206.18...@cs.cornell.edu>,
>>   No reason.  But since my first interpretation of RMS's idea is
>>that the FSF will take credit for work they've not done, it seems
>>like it's not the most politic way to ask for recognition.

>The FSF is not taking credit for anything that they have not
>done.

   True.  note that I said "first interpretation": when you said

> RMS's idea (which I have heard first-hand) is that Linux systems
> should be considered GNU systems with Linux as the kernel.

   the very first thing that popped into my head, even armed with
the knowledge that RMS likes to make Pronouncements, was that FSF
was trying to take credit for Linux.  And I *like* the FSF, and
support the work they're doing.

>Or did
>believe that it was the Linux development team which wrote gcc,
>libc, and the dozens of other software tools which your Linux
>system depends upon to run?

   Now I'd have to disagree with this.  Aside from gcc and libc, I
can get stuff from multiple sources, not just the FSF.  I have at
least as much Berkeley code on my linux box as I do FSF code --
if I was to convert over to FreeBSD, the only substantive change
would be the kernel, and that's certainly not a "GNU system with
BSD as the kernel"

   The GNU stuff is good, with very few bugs and gotchas, and the
development of Linux would be quite different without having gcc
around.  And the [L]GPL is a nice idea, which I approve of, and
would be happy to use if it wasn't for this recent exchange of
messages.  But using <x> tools doesn't make what you wrote also an
<x> tool.

                ____
  david parsons \bi/ o...@pell.com
                 \/


 
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