[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: Red Hat's Fedora to Get Longer Support

[Tejas Dinkar]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Leo sent out 0.7K bytes to say:
> * Jeremy Hogan (2007-01-10 20:27 -0500) said:
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > GNU/Linux isn't as Googlicious as Fedora Linux would be. Plus given
> > the number of non-gpl and non-gnu components
> 
> I'd say that's a small number that is not compliant with GPL.
> 
> That's exactly why we should name the system GNU.

I hate this damn debate.

In any case, naming a thing GNU/* is not because of GPL packages.

It is because of GNU programs. Linux is GPL, linux is NOT GNU.

Some GNU apps include
gnu make
gcc
gnu bin utils
GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME for the rest of us)

etc, etc.

KDE is GPL, but not GNU software. Most of fedora is not GNU software.
Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/Php

A popular linux set up. Not one of LAMP is GNU software.

I once attended a talk by someone on this. He pointed out, why stop at just
GNU?

WE use Apache Software.
Fedora GNU/Apache/Linux

not to mention Qt software
Fedora GNU/Apache/Trolltech/Linux

and stuff we borrowed from BSD
Fedora GNU/Apache./Trolltech/BSD/Linux

etc... etc... etc..
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Tejas Dinkar
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