On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:21, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
Hehehehe... Arey I have seen Computer Science & Engineering majors and their teachers make such 'mistakes' or even graver ones. People of this category often talk about GCC, GNOME, GRUB, BASH, blah blah... without ever realising that GNU does have something to do with it. I have a guy who keeps chasing me to fix some issue with his GRUB, but I bet he has no idea about the GPL or RMS.
Talking about the common man, many of them are quite familiar about Linux, but no inkling about GNU. They think Linus Torvalds is this amazing programmer, and I would not be suprised if they said "Hacker to Ankit Fadia hai bhai, yeh Richard Stallman koun hai?"
This is sick, because if it was not for the GNU and its GPL then even the Linux kernel would not have here as it is today.
I agree. Many people just think the kernel is great. Nobody ever stops to think twice about the shell which makes it possible for you to tell the kernel what you want to do :P.
Its funny that even Linus Torvalds wants the OS to be called simply Linux and not GNU/Linux. I agree with him only to a certain extent but then its a controversial subject so lets just keep off it.
And puhleeezz dont get me started about Ankit Fadia. Hes a big hoax. Hes nothing but a script kiddie who has just gathered cracks from websites and compiled them into a book.
BTW wasn't GPL modelled on the Debian Free Software Guidelines? or was it the social contract? Whatever it was, you should give due credit to Debian! :)