Notices where this attachment appears
-
mikegerwitz
#GNU is more than just a collection of software; it is an operating system:https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html Many hackers and activists within the free software community don't understand this well, and it's a shame to see attacks on GNU's relevance (as measured by programs written by GNU on a given system) going unchallenged. Software for GNU was written by the GNU Project when a suitable free program was not available. It wouldn't have made sense to write everything from scratch if free programs already solved the problem. When we say GNU/Linux, we really are referring to the GNU operating system that just happens to be using Linux. It could be using the FreeBSD kernel (GNU/FreeBSD). It could be using a Windows kernel with a Linux API (GNU/kWindows). It could be using the Hurd (GNU/Hurd). The disambiguation is important, but the end result is pretty much the same. There are many systems that use Linux that are not GNU. And…