--- Saswata Banerjee & Associates
I have not yet got hold of the article and have not therefore, read it, but I think we can forgive mr. charles for making the same mistake.
[snip]
Your are missing out on it....Grab it and read it ASAP.
Trevor
Anyway, thanks for educating me, so now I will specify GNU/Linux
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bhargav Bhatt" bbb2004@columbia.edu To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld
Linux is just the kernel or the most important
component of the operating
system. GNU/Linux is the entire operating system.
It contains the Linux
kernel, and GNU programs like Bash, GCC, EMACS etc
which help make a
complete OS.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Saswata Banerjee & Associates
wrote:
Duh !! I am sorry, but what is the difference between
Linux and GNU\Linux ?
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nagarjuna G."
To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to
BILL to bill in BusinessWorld
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:49:16AM -0800,
Trevor Warren wrote:
will deviate the purpose. The reason why
I cannot
swallow everything that Charles wrote in Business India is
because, the
media is now manufacturing a new concent. As you saw
the
article talked about economics but not about business ethics,
freedom
and philosophy.
[snip]
Nag, i will add my own opinion to this debate.....................
I do agree with your point of view
regarding the
total lack of focus on the
ethical/philosophy part of
the Free Software Movement and how it
differs from the
way M$ goes around doing its business.
But also.....time and again the media
needs to kick
up the dust and stir a hornets nest just to
ensure
that people don't stop buying their stories
and
increase their circulation.
Personall sir........i think charles has
done a
DECENT job of unbiased reporting. But
probably from
your perspective there exists a LOT of
LACUNAE on
reporting on the ethical/philosophy part.
I am only using Charles as a scape goat.
(Sorry Charles! There are
many like you all over the world.) Why do you
say he did an unbiased
reporting? He did what he thought people will
like, and possibly that
is the reason why he used `Linux' in plece of
GNU/Linux. This is a
bias. He, while, composing has judged for the
community that it is
Linux. This is how journalists manufacture
consent and sustain the
vicious circle. He writes that it is only the
job of the purists to
call it GNU/Linux, implying that people at
large need not take those
seriously. He succeeded in catching the
attention for it was a cover
story, and he should be congratulated.
Nagarjuna
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Bhargav Bhatt Department of Applied Physics and Applied
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Columbia University, New York.
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