"Revolution OS" (The Movie).

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Dec 31 21:16:36 GMT 2006


Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> On Saturday 30 December 2006 14:50, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Guys, you are simply picking at semantics now. We all know that GNU was
>> an important part of the development of Linux as the base for
>> distributions. Jeff already pointed out that Linus is fully recognisant
>> of this. Let's leave it at that!
> 
> The conversation diverged from that some time ago. We weren't talking
> about Linus or GNU, but rather about the role a kernel (in this case,
> Linux) has to play in an operating system. Either way, I agree that it was
> picking at semantics and was hence a silly debate :)
> 
_Everything's_ semantics.  Without semantics we wouldn't understand each
other at all.  It's not an earth-shattering debate, but that doesn't mean
it's silly.
-- 
derek




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