GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

[MR]

the only thing worse than someone that goes on and on about how gnu is
the only way to be etc is someone that goes on and on and on about how
those people are wrong and annoying.. IMO this thread is as dead as a
doornail..

On 1/23/07, David Ford <david at blue-labs.org> wrote:
> Most sales droids I know wouldn't even have a clue about either GNU or
> Linux :-D
>
> -david
>
> Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> > * Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> [070122 21:37]:
> >
> >> That also wouldn't be accurate. The droid, refering to
> >> wikipedia-stable, might instead say:
> >>
> >> "So, it's something _different_ than Linux?"
> >> "Well, not really. GNU/Linux is the whole system; Linux is one part of
> >> the system, and it is a very important part, but it often gets
> >> misunderstood as the whole system. If you refer to the whole system,
> >> please call it GNU/Linux."
> >>
> >
> > You've got a quite optimistic view when it comes to sales droids ;)
> >
> > Andreas
> >
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