[GNUz] Re: [GNUz] “GNU”, “Linux”, or neither...?

[Wesley Parish]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:58, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On 03/04/07, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > An interesting discussion on how much GNU actually does contribute to a
> > distro.
> >
> > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/gnu_linux_neither
>
> The article, and the discussions below it, seem to reinforce my belief
> that while the technical contribution from the GNU Project was very
> large in the past, its relative importance is decreasing.
>
> It seems to me that the FSF and the GNU GPL are far more important
> influences :-)
>
> Even so, I don't think that anyone has a "Linux" distribution that
> isn't compiled using the GNU toolchain. I suspect that some of the
> BSDs may have an alternative, but I haven't done any research on that
> point.

I had a bit of a discussion on that topic some time with deRaadt, who was at 
the time trying to talk the Plan 9 people into releasing their compiler under 
a more BSD-like/friendly license.  I mentioned the TenDRA compiler as being 
perhaps what he had in mind, since it _is_ available under the BSD license, 
and he got irate and asked if I thought he was an ignoramus or words to that 
effect. ;)

After that, I figure that he's a team-working genius - anyone who can keep 
such a diverse team together while being that touchy and irritable, clearly 
knows what he's doing! ;)

Wesley Parish
>
> -jim
>
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