• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Secondly, I wish people could stop trying to teach everyone that Linux isn’t the OS. Anyone that cares already knows, and anyone that doesn’t know doesn’t care.

    Ironically, the people who need to hear this don’t care.

    It’s 100% stallman trying to coat-tails Linus.

    What I’ve learned in 30 years of using Linux is the gnu/Linux distinction only matters to the kind of whacko I can’t work with. It’s a great mineshaft canary to let me know whom not to invest any time in.

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      5 months ago

      Linus wrote a kernel, and GNU wrote the majority of the userspace at the time.

      How is that coat-tails-ing? Both projects had a tremendous amount of effort poured into them. And let’s not forget GCC was the only free compiler for 20 years.

      If people were asking for it to be called “GNU” only, then it’d be unfair. But they aren’t.