Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd

Actually DLUG became DGLUG for a bit.  I am still voting for DePaul
Users of Free Operating Systems, but I keep losing that battle.  BSD
be damned!

--
Matthew P Kemp



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, John Kristoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone said that Stallman is the father of Linux. =A0I doubt Richard
> would even claim that, especially since he would insist you call the
> entire operating system GNU/Linux. =A0Nevertheless, the FSF has this to
> say:
>
> =A0If we tried to measure the GNU Project's contribution in this way,
> =A0what would we conclude? One CD-ROM vendor found that in their "Linux
> =A0distribution", GNU software was the largest single contingent, around
> =A028% of the total source code, and this included some of the essential
> =A0major components without which there could be no system. Linux itself
> =A0was about 3%. (The proportions in 2008 are similar: in the "main"
> =A0repository of gNewSense, Linux is 1.5% and GNU packages are 15%.) So if
> =A0you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the
> =A0programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be
> =A0=93GNU=94.
>
> =A0<http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html>
>
> Whatever you call it, it's an aggregate of many licenses, people and
> borrowed ideas from other projects.
>
> As a historical note, I recall this group once seriously considering
> changing it's name from the original DLUG to DGLUG or something similar
> to acquiesce to the FSF when it was made clear by Bradley Kuhn when he
> visited DePaul that RMS himself wouldn't come to DePaul unless this
> group changed it's name to put 'GNU' or something about free software in
> it's name.
>
> John
> _______________________________________________
> DLC mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc
> Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!!
> http://linux.depaul.edu/
_______________________________________________
DLC mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.depaul.edu/mailman/listinfo/dlc
Use the Above Link to Unsubcribe!!
http://linux.depaul.edu/