On 11/11/10 00:23, Vic wrote:
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>> GNU/Linux is offensive to me
>
> It shouldn't be.
>
> Linux is a kernel. To make a useful OS, you kinda need some userspace
> programs.
>
> That userspace is what converts Linux into GNU/Linux. If you sat it atop
> Hurd, it would be GNU/Hurd.
>
> Vic.
And Apache converts Linux, GNU et al to a Web server. It still doesn't
make GNU more important that Linux and its modules. Look at Hurd, no one
uses that, and without a good OS, GNU wouldn't be known. It is offensive
and wrong to use the term in a FLOSS community.
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