Linux, GNU, and Freedom (was Re: The Stallman Factor)

"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 20. May, 2002 schwätzte George Toft so:
>
> > And we should all start calling Solaris "Berkeley/Solaris" right? I don't
>
> Don't be ridiculous. It's Berkeley/SunOS and AT&T/Solaris ;-).
>
> > think so. If you don't follow my point, find out what's in /usr/ucb
> > (that's ucb as in University of California Berkely) - all the neat tools
> > you are used to that are not GNU.
>
> I use GNU tools on Solaris. I wish the one debian developer had followed
> through on his threat to make debian GNU/Solaris. He was gonna keep the
> Solaris kernel, wipe out the OS and install a debian GNU OS compiled for the
> Solaris kernel :).

and emacs... I remember using emacs back in '78 on the Dec Tops-20, and
at that time it was written in Teco (not lisp)... No, GNU is not the
OS... sheesh.

EBo --