> Linux [...] since 1987

perhaps what he really meant, was
(something more like)
<< what is now [often] called "Linux" >>
which (per rms at least) means [/is] Gnu/Linux;
...and perhaps (it should be seen as "implied", that it)
should be interpreted here, as
a reference to the part of Gnu/Linux
[that is, Gnu] that did exist "as of" 1987.
(Gnu goes further back...)
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com

On 1/28/07, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk@linuxquestions.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 18:03 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > Craig White is a former vice president of Arizona Apple User group
> > (mid
> > 80's), and have been doing computer support, contract sysadmin for
> > Macintosh, Windows, Linux networks since 1987
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> Linux support, no doubt, came later than 1987 since Linux Torvalds
> didn't enroll in the University of Helsinki until 1988 and didn't
> announce Linux until August 1991.
>
> Dennisk
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