Philip Tellis Wrote:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/25/161 Interesting insights about licencing of the kernel.
Seems as if the FSF gained a control over Linus and forced the name GNU/Linux.
What RMS said in his public lecture was, that they had to build an operating system and they had started developing components for it. They were left alone without the kernel and luckily, they could find Linus, who was ready to give away the source code of the kernel he developed. Therefore, the GNU project was successful in completion of an Operating System with Linux as its kernel.
I had always thought of any Linux distro, the entire operating system, as GNU/Linux and Linux as the kernel of this OS. GNU/Linux because, most of the the application programs that I used were "FREE" software.
For newbies like me, the above mentioned link would resort to more discussions and arguments over an active mailing list like GLUG-BOM!
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On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:33, Roshan wrote:
Seems as if the FSF gained a control over Linus and forced the name GNU/Linux.
Someone wise has said - "Whats in a name?". I think the FOSS should invest more time in developing a better, friendlier UI than fighting over what Linux should be called!
On 10/8/06, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Someone wise has said - "Whats in a name?". I think the FOSS should invest more time in developing a better, friendlier UI than fighting over what Linux should be called!
Just the other day there was talk that FLOSS needs good marketing. And brand name is an very essential part of marketing. Marketing the OS as Linux puts it in quite different light than marketing it as GNU/Linux.
On 10/8/06, mehul mehul.forums@gmail.com wrote:
Just the other day there was talk that FLOSS needs good marketing. And brand name is an very essential part of marketing. Marketing the OS as Linux puts it in quite different light than marketing it as GNU/Linux.
Exactly the point... Linux has far higher "recall value" then GNU/Linux. :-) Those who are in FOSS for some time may know that Linux is just a kernel but the people at large refer the system as Linux.
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