[CLUE-Talk] Thoughts on GNU.

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 26 May 2002 21:59:24 -0600
Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 26 May 2002 09:08 pm, David Anselmi wrote:
> > There was a post a few days ago linking to an RMS article that said,
> > among other things, that the correct name of our favorite OS is
> > GNU/Linux, not Linux.
<snip> 
> Personally, I started using Linux because I had the same attitude as
> Dmitry (first post below) -- that a bunch of 'hackers' couldn't produce
> a viable operating system.  'They aren't professionals.', I thought. 
> 'How could they do it without being paid?', I wondered.  That was in
> 1995.  
<snip> 

Some related comments in an interview on kerneltrap:

  http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=222
(Interview: Larry McVoy - BitKeeper)

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