GNU License for Hardware

Andrew J Bromage ajb at buzzword.cc.monash.edu.au
Fri Oct 15 01:58:55 UTC 1999


G'day all.

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:46:16PM -0400, Matthew C. Weigel wrote:

> Whereas Linux (the kernel) *is* free, and is considered part of
> the GNU system.

I like the acronym expansion of GNU/Linux:

	GNU's Not Unix/Linux

Since Linux is in fact a re-implementation of Unix, it's recursive and
contradictory all at once.  Hofstadter would be proud.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage



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