From: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: configure script
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:24:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020612202407.654B92A43E@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Glenn Morris's message of Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:53:03 +0100 <yeb3cvsuy5s.fsf@xpc21.ast.cam.ac.uk>
Glenn Morris <rgm22@_REMOVETHIS_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
> > Nobody denies the major contribution of the GNU project to Linux systems.
> > Nobody would deny that all available Linux systems _are_ GNU systems.
>
> No reasonable person fully informed of all the facts would deny those
> points. I think, however, that many people are not aware of all the facts.
> "Linux" is a bit of a media-buzzword, "GNU" is less so, in my experience.
On a lighter note, don't underestimate the power of GNU with those that
do know about free software. I wonder if gnuplot is (probably, my guess
anyway) the most popular graphing package in the free software world
because people think it's the GNU approved one, when in fact it has
nothing to do with GNU (and isn't GPLed either).
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-07 18:44 configure script Edson Alves Pereira
2002-06-08 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-12 10:23 ` Sami Sihvonen
2002-06-12 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-12 17:42 ` Paul Jarc
2002-06-12 18:53 ` [OT] " Glenn Morris
2002-06-12 19:34 ` A rose by any other name (was Re: [OT] Re: configure script) David Masterson
2002-06-13 21:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-13 22:01 ` David desJardins
2002-06-13 23:23 ` David Masterson
2002-06-15 14:13 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-13 23:48 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-18 10:08 ` Sami Sihvonen
2002-06-12 20:24 ` Peter S Galbraith [this message]
2002-06-12 21:32 ` [OT] Re: configure script David Kastrup
2002-06-12 22:24 ` David Masterson
2002-06-13 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-13 8:52 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-13 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-13 12:35 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-13 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-13 14:56 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-13 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-13 16:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-06-14 15:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-12 21:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2002-06-12 22:30 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-12 22:59 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2002-06-13 8:29 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-13 19:42 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2002-06-12 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-13 9:01 ` David Kastrup
2002-06-17 14:57 ` Sami Sihvonen
2002-06-18 16:06 ` D. Goel
2002-06-18 18:24 ` Christoph Conrad
2002-06-12 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-06-17 14:56 ` Sami Sihvonen
2002-06-17 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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