a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 28 18:20:33 UTC 2008


> Right.  It's the GNU operating system, and it also
> contains non-Free
> Software.  It only appears to be a contradiction if you
> conflate RMS,
> FSF, GNU, Free Software, GPL, patent-avoidance, Free Open
> Standards,
> no-DRM, etc, all under the same "I don't like this
> topic" umbrella.
> But they're all separate issues.  Some of them are
> completely
> unrelated to each other, some are closer.
> 

You are right Fedora is not GNU/Linux.  

I want to make ascii art with letters GNU LINUX and it is not possible.  Therefore Fedora is not really GNU/Linux


                                                              
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Url to make images intor text 
http://www.degraeve.com/img2txt.php

Try the url:
http://mrtopf.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/fedora-logo.png

width set to: 60
letters to use: GNULINUX

click on asciify,

It won't succeed :(

Is that proof.  NO it is not but that means that GNU/Linux is not successful 


      




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