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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Date: 7 Feb 1997 09:55:16 GMT
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Curt Sampson, in <5dd9d7$li1@cynic.portal.ca>:
>In article <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote:
>>the reason i don't buy this argument of Stallman's is, i could set up
>>those same GNU utils on a FreeBSD box - maybe even down to GNU libc
>>now that v2.0 of it is going to be the next version of libc on Linux -
>>but that still doesn't mean FreeBSD is Linux. or would you say it is?
>No. Both I and Stallman would say that that system is GNU/FreeBSD.
and i would thumb my nose at the both of you. but whatever floats your
boat, so long as you don't expect me to agree.
>You'll note that when I refer to `Linux' I am referring to the
>Linux kernel, which is not a complete OS. When I refer to `GNU/Linux,'
>I am referring to a complete OS.
that would be using your and Stallman's definition of what comprises
an OS. i disagree with it, and will not use it.
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