[Sussex] : Stallman and GNU/Linux

Paul reality at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Feb 5 11:39:38 UTC 2007


Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> writes:

>> No, Linux is both the name of the kernel and the OS that runs on it.
>> It is because that is the way people use the word.

> No. You're wrong and so are the people that use it that way.

>>I used to be part of a campaign to try to educate people that unauthorised
>>use of copyright material was NOT the moral equivalent of large-scale
murder
>>and rape, and hence the word "Piracy" was an inappropriate way to describe
>>the listeners of unauthorised music / users of unauthorised software.

Surely this is all a bit simpler than this?

It's the Linux kernel being used in the GNU/Linux OS as far as I remember?
;Op

Paul.





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