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Greg Rundlett
greg at freephile.com
Thu Dec 23 01:23:00 EST 2004
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> You could take "Linux" as the kernel proper. That's the original name,
>after all. In that light, Linux is pretty dull. All it will get you is an
>error message ("no init found"). I'll go back to Windows, thank you.
>
> Now, you could take "Linux" to mean the first page of a huge book of
>tools. Apache, Emacs, GCC, GNOME, KDE, Perl, PHP, Python, X11, and
>everything else. Well, that's a heck of a good read there. I'll keep that
>book on my bookshelf, for ready reference.
>
> Or, you take "Linux" as the standard-bearer of Free/Open Source Software.
>Software that's owned by the community that uses it, rather then a single
>person or organization. Software that gives you the freedom to what you
>want with your computer. Now *that's* down-right revolutionary.
>
> I think we should be able to talk about any of that here.
>
> :-)
>
>
>
Well put, and I agree completely.
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