On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:08:47AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > I notice that none of the GNU antagonists had a response to Torvald's own > words on the topic when I posted them earlier today: > > Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you > need a shell, compilers, a library etc. ... Most of the tools used with > linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. I'll agree that GNU/Linux is "correct" (because Linux is built using GNU tools) the day that car lots start selling Craftsman/Fords (because Fords are built using Craftsman[1] tools). Alternately, I'll agree that GNU/Linux is "correct" (because Linux is useless without software which is largely provided by GNU) the day that car lots start selling OPEC/Fords (because Fords are useless without oil which is largely provided by OPEC). Or, if you don't like computer/car analogies, I suppose we could try telling Dell that they have to call their products Intel/Dell. And O'Reilly should change its name to Hammermill/O'Reilly. I can't figure out, though, whether it would be more appropriate for World of Warcraft (and every other piece of Win32 software out there) to become Microsoft/World of Warcraft or Windows/World of Warcraft... [1] Having never worked at a Ford plant, I probably have the wrong brand of tools here. Feel free to replace "Craftsman" with the correct brand if you happen to know what it is. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html)