On Jul 26, 2008, Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> why would they have bothered with rewriting a much smaller piece of >> it? > If it is really free, why does this last paragraph belong in your > argument? The argument about why it is correct to say that what some people mistake for Linux is actually the GNU operating system? I don't see what this has to do with freedom. Sure, they can use it, or write something else. But if they use it, that won't make it something else, no matter how wonderful the kernel they use with it is. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list