On 02/12/14 21:11, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:01:00AM -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: >> Olaf Buddenhagen <[email protected]> escreveu: > >>> When you say "*this* is GNU", you always carry the implication that >>> "everything else is not GNU". >> >> And that's true in the sense that everything else are not >> distributions developed by the GNU project. It seems to me you're >> conflating the issues as if saying that a distribution is developed by >> the GNU project would imply that no other system is a GNU-variant. > > I'm not conflating anything -- I'm merely pointing out that the vast > majority of people out there won't be making the fine distinctions you > are claiming.
The vast majority? > Let's take a step back: for the past 15 years or so, the GNU project has > been promoting the view that most of the Linux-based systems out there > put together by various people and using most of GNU, are essentially > GNU systems. If the GNU project decides to release something called "The > GNU System" or just "GNU" now, what most people will hear is: "Actually, > we have been kidding: all this time, there really was no GNU system -- > but now there is!" -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/ ID Klefo PGP : 0x8A296B99 Marko fingrala: 7ED8 4963 C881 647C 9DA0 FDE6 881B 91ED 8A29 6B99
