The crucial role of GNU was brought home for me again this weekend, as I watched gcc flawlessly build from scratch--close to 950K LOC. The GNU contribution to the core Linux platform is a tour de force of high-quality code, without which the platform would be immeasurably poorer.
Bulletproof compilers, libraries and related devel tools are at the very heart of open source, and Linux would be a shadow of itself without them. Equating the GNU oeuvre with RandomUtilityWhoseRpmIHaventInstalledYet 1.0 is disingenuous, and a slap in the face to the massive amount of excellent work that's gone into GNU.
I agree, there comes a point where prepending something slash to Linux gets ridiculous, but that point is after GNU becomes the initial something. I don't always agree with RMS, but agree and respect are two whole different animals. You don't have to agree with RMS to respect the biggest single contribution to Linux as it exists today. GNU rocks, and GNU/Linux it is.
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The crucial role of GNU was brought home for me again this weekend, as I watched gcc flawlessly build from scratch--close to 950K LOC. The GNU contribution to the core Linux platform is a tour de force of high-quality code, without which the platform would be immeasurably poorer.
Bulletproof compilers, libraries and related devel tools are at the very heart of open source, and Linux would be a shadow of itself without them. Equating the GNU oeuvre with RandomUtilityWhoseRpmIHaventInstalledYet 1.0 is disingenuous, and a slap in the face to the massive amount of excellent work that's gone into GNU.
I agree, there comes a point where prepending something slash to Linux gets ridiculous, but that point is after GNU becomes the initial something. I don't always agree with RMS, but agree and respect are two whole different animals. You don't have to agree with RMS to respect the biggest single contribution to Linux as it exists today. GNU rocks, and GNU/Linux it is.