Re: Re: a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 27, 2008, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At the time, RMS had no reason to suggest any such thing.  When he was
suggesting names for Linus' kernel,

He never did such a thing, AFAIK.  He suggested a name for the
combination of the operating system GNU with the kernel Linux.  Never
to the kernel itself.  That he did is just one of the lies by those
who want to denigrate the RMS, the FSF and the Free Software movement.

My mistake. I had thought that it was RMS that suggested Linux instead of Freax. Wikipedia says that it was Ari Lemmke that changed the name.

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