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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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