Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:35:57 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <3B49F98D.A945A093@acuson.com> References: <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010630173455.T344@teleport.com> <20010701032900.A93049@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010701132353.W344@teleport.com> <20010702152649.A18127@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010702180222.A2667@hades.hell.gr> <3B412280.ED210541@mail.ptd.net> <3B4205CD.51C186FD@acuson.com> <20010707063227.F1368@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 July 2001 at 10:50:05 -0700, David Johnson wrote: > > > > As for naming a particular OS "GNU/FreeBSD", that has been suggested (in > > jest) already. RMS' response to it was (grossly paraphrased) > > "ridiculous". > > Not what he said to me. And for what we're talking about, the naming > doesn't seem ridiculous to me either, though I don't know why anybody > would want a Debian BSD. I was trying to find the response that I mentioned above. It was quite a while ago, and I haven't found it. But I found the following message from RMS (October 1999, license-discuss@opensource.org) that is interesting nonetheless... >> If I was to replace all of Solaris's utilities with the GNU >> equivalents, would anybody call it GNU/Solaris? > I for one would not call it that. Copying just the utilities from GNU > is not enough of a reason to say "the result is basically the GNU > system." What GNU/Linux has in common with GNU is much more than a > bunch of utilities. If you took the kernel of Solaris and made it > work in the GNU system, that would produce GNU/Solaris. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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