Philip Tellis Wrote:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/25/161 Interesting insights about licencing of the kernel.
Seems as if the FSF gained a control over Linus and forced the name GNU/Linux.
What RMS said in his public lecture was, that they had to build an operating system and they had started developing components for it. They were left alone without the kernel and luckily, they could find Linus, who was ready to give away the source code of the kernel he developed. Therefore, the GNU project was successful in completion of an Operating System with Linux as its kernel.
I had always thought of any Linux distro, the entire operating system, as GNU/Linux and Linux as the kernel of this OS. GNU/Linux because, most of the the application programs that I used were "FREE" software.
For newbies like me, the above mentioned link would resort to more discussions and arguments over an active mailing list like GLUG-BOM!
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