Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
What do you mean "other than the Hurd"?
I mean "except for the Hurd", "save for the Hurd", or however you'd
like to phrase the act of taking a set with hundreds of elements, and
applying the same predicate to all but one of them.
I don't mean the semantics, I mean philosophically. Why would you
except the one thing that deserves to be called GNU from this
discussion?
Err... I don't know how you got this idea that GNU was supposed to be
just a kernel. GNU is an entire operating system, that Linux
developers happened to borrow to complete theirs, because all they had
was a kernel.
And meanwhile the GNU project still has its own. People who think the
GNU name is attractive can use that one. People who are more attracted
to the popularity of Linux shouldn't have to be confused by the name
associated with some other project.
If someone not interested in the kernel Hurd shouldn't be interested
in GNU or any of the GNU/Hurd distros out there, then someone not
interested in the kernel Linux shouldn't be interested in GNU+Linux or
any of the GNU/Linux distros out there.
And yet, there is still something that _IS_ the GNU project's OS, that
people can use if they want to use something named GNU. But,
overwhelming they pick some other project instead.
Some other project that is nearly as much GNU, indeed.
I'd prefer that the Linux based distros had shared more of the
BSD-origin work rather than the GPL-encumbered GNU copies.
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