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Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012 |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:59:21 -0400 |
Well, it's not a joke, Neal. And I'm not to be harsh or mean. But
GNU is incomplete without the HURD. Linux works, but it's not GNU.
It's GNU plus Linux, or GNU/Linux.
Linux doesn't have to be part of the GNU project to be part of the GNU
system; our goal was *never* to re-write free software; it was to
develop a entierly free UNIX-like operating system. In that sense,
our goal is done. But the threat of non-free software still looms,
take Linux as a prime example--it contains non-free blobs; so we now
have GNU Linux-Libre that removes those blobs.
Should we have a more powerful (software-wise) kernel? Maybe, maybe we
could add those features to Linux, maybe we could write another
kernel, or work more on the Hurd. But that does not meaen that GNU is
somehow missing a key component to be considered `done'; we will be
done when there is no or little non-free software out there
subjugating our users. Not sooner, not later.
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, (continued)
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Neal H. Walfield, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Werner Koch, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/06/06
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Jose E. Marchesi, 2012/06/05
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2012/06/04
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, John Darrington, 2012/06/02
Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Rick C. Hodgin, 2012/06/02
Re: [Ghm-discuss] Main Topic for 2012, Rick C. Hodgin, 2012/06/05