[Bradford] Why is Bradlug GNU/Linux and not just Linux ?

[Dick Thomas]

I was thinking about this my self the other day as we exclude bsd users in
the district too and most foss is the same on linux and bsd




On 12 November 2012 16:08, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:

> On 12 November 2012 16:02, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
> > As the title asks...
>
> My guess would be that whoever founded the group thought that
> GNU/Linux was appropriate. See:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
>
> Or perhaps you are actually asking why they took the same position as
> RMS and the FSF et al ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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