Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

[Felipe López]

On 02/12/14 21:11, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:01:00AM -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
>> Olaf Buddenhagen <address@hidden> escreveu:
> 
>>> When you say "*this* is GNU", you always carry the implication that
>>> "everything else is not GNU". 
>>
>> And that's true in the sense that everything else are not
>> distributions developed by the GNU project.  It seems to me you're
>> conflating the issues as if saying that a distribution is developed by
>> the GNU project would imply that no other system is a GNU-variant.
> 
> I'm not conflating anything -- I'm merely pointing out that the vast
> majority of people out there won't be making the fine distinctions you
> are claiming.


The vast majority?


> Let's take a step back: for the past 15 years or so, the GNU project has
> been promoting the view that most of the Linux-based systems out there
> put together by various people and using most of GNU, are essentially
> GNU systems. If the GNU project decides to release something called "The
> GNU System" or just "GNU" now, what most people will hear is: "Actually,
> we have been kidding: all this time, there really was no GNU system --
> but now there is!"


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