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Cedric in s his bumbling way has once again attemtpted to spread some FUD
as fact in
his post about RMS. Lets debunk the unfactual points, shall we?
First lets discuss the difference between GNU, a kernel , and a opensource
OS system which Cedric gets wrong:
Richard Stallman gets more delusional every day. In
this article where he tries to debunk the SCO/Linux case, he makes his
usual revisionist statements, such as:
In 1991, GNU was mostly finished, lacking only a kernel. In 1992, Linus
Torvalds made his kernel, Linux, free software. Others combined GNU and
Linux to produce the first complete free operating system, GNU/Linux.
Interesting way to rewrite history. What Stallman was working on was
something called Hurd, which was a fully-fledged operating system
(including a kernel, despite what he claims). Stallman also spent a lot
of time trying to push technologies that already existed but that he
decided to rewrite, in the purest Not Invented Here syndrome
(does anyone remember Guile?).
GNU is according to GNU.org is a not
Unix operating system consisting of a kernel and other stuff. So while
Hurd and Linux are GNU systems, GNU refers to the full generic whole of
that definition of full Unix like system. Hurd is part of GNU but is only
a kernel not the full GNU like Cedric falsely claims with no facts to back
up that point. Note 1984-1991 most of GNU was completed with the exception
of the kernel, something Cedric forgot to mention.
Second point, based on the definiiotn of GNU both Linus and RMS are right on
their naming schemes. The full OS should be calle dGNU while the kernel
shoudl be caleld what it is whether itss Linux, Hurd or something else.
The rest of the post dintegrates into more personal attacks without facts. .
Cedric please do some error checking of your facts next time, one might
come to the conclusion that you seem delusional like Hani.
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