GNU License for Hardware
Derek Balling
dredd at megacity.org
Sat Oct 16 06:06:55 UTC 1999
>What suddenly struck me is that a GNU System with its own kernel, although it
>exists today, did not exist when the original Linux distributions were
>created.
>As I recall, back then GNU did not exist as a system in any form. It was a
>future goal, but then it was only a collection of programs. So in one very
>real
>sense, LinuxOS was around long before GNUOS.
Wow... good point that I hadn't thought of. :) Maybe we should make them
call it Linux/GNU. ;-)
D
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