that old GNU/Linux argument

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Jul 21 23:45:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:47:03 -0300
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Jul 21, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 30 • Re post #23 (by Anonymous on 2008-07-21 20:19:06 GMT from Canada)
> 
> > "Gnu" is but one portion of all
> 
> Nobody ever disputed that.  It's like Linux.  Except that Linux is
> a much smaller portion than GNU.  An order of magnitude so.

By what measurement - remembering that much of GNU is actually BSD and
other projects with bits nailed on or assimilated into the project.

Alan




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