1 Sep
2012
1 Sep
'12
6:39 p.m.
On 9/1/12 5:12 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
So candidates were TRIX, Sprite, BSD, UZI, then they
tried to build
HURD and in the end it became Linux.
No, not at all. RMS fiercely fought (may still do) Linux's
"takeover" of the GNU environment.
The whole "GNU/Linux" thing wasn't an effort to coopt Linux as part
of GNU, but rather RMS's attempt to force Linux users and vendors to
acknowledge GNU as the OS and Linux as "just the kernel".
I was involved in the local Linux Users' Group when all that fight
was fresh. The LUG invited RMS to speak here, and he accepted the
invitation - with the minor condition that we must change the name of
the group from AustinLUG (Austin Linux Users' Group) to AustinG/LUG
(Austin GNU/Linux Users' Group).
I really don't think he even saw the humor in the suggestion....
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