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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 18:57:21 GMT
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote:
: >If somebody had thunk up "NetBSD is the choice of a GNU generation"
: >then that would also have been clever, though slightly less so, since
: >the FSF has more of a connection with Linux than with BSD.
: Except that it's an untrue statement.
What's an untrue statement? The part about X would also have been
clever, or the part about FSF having more of a connection with Linux?
: GNU software runs on a range of systems that you can't count on both
: hands and both feet.
Never said it didn't.
: Including systems that aren't even unix.
You mean like Linux?
Never claimed otherwise.
: And, Linux is in no way endorsed by the FSF, regardless of any
: connection they may have with it, or any of the other dozens of OS's
: their software runs on.
The FSF distributes Linux (the "Debian" distribution). I believe that
the Debian distribution contains nothing but GPL'd code, but that's
neither here nor there.
Does the FSF maintain a BSD release????
If not, in my book that is "more of a connection with Linux than with
BSD," which is what I claimed. If FSF does have a BSD release that
they created and maintain, then I humbly apologize and withdraw my
statement that FSF has more of a connection with Linux than with BSD.
: So, I think BSD users have a point when they say "it's a load of horse
: hockey" whenever they see such a misleading statement.
Oh for Pete's sake, it's not misleading unless you're an
anal-retentive lawer ready to sue everybody at the drop of hat. It's
an advertising slogan, remember? (You claimed that you got it, but I
don't think so.)
: Not only does it imply that the BSD's are *not* the choice of the
: GNU generation,
As does the Pepsi advertising campaign in regards to Coke and the "new
generation." It is quite obvious to everybody on the planet (or so I
thought) that the above slogan is not a claim that everbody on the
planet drinks nothing but Pepsi.
: but that the FSF endorses Linux as its system of choice, and both
: implications are untrue.
Well, the FSF does distribute Linux, so I guess you could call that a
"choice" made by the FSF.
--
Grant Edwards |Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH
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|a VEGETARIAN...
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