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Re: OT Re: Hebrew & Linux from IBM?
On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:35 pm, dov@imagic.weizmann.ac.il wrote:
> He doesn't even mention the abbreviation GNU in the article, though
> he got the stuff about Richard Stalman and his manifesto right.
Oof, I hate this GNU-before-linux-thing!
Mr. RMS has met once Elizabeth from Linux Weekly News web site and for almost
2 hours was nagging her to change the name from LWN to GNU/LWN or something
like that "because Linux is based on GNU tools"
*BSD freaks, RMS lovers and others - I don't care if everyone flame me on
this, but here goes.
True - GNU stuff was available before Linux, just like the *BSD stuff was
before Linux available - but once Linux became wildly acceptible and popular
- there has been MUCH more GNU stuff.
If there wasn't linux, was there any new GCC? GNOME? GRUB? I doubt. Lets face
it - Linux popularity introduced to many people the GNU applications and
stuff. When I started with Linux (circa 1995 or so) the only thing I heard
about GNU tools - was GNU HURD (0.09 if I'm not mistaken) and it's not
because I was an MS freak - I programmed all the 8 bit processors and played
with Mac/Amiga/Atari machines and never heard GNU tools from them...
> * I was wondering what "Hebrew support for Linux" from IBM means.
> Again, this expression makes as much sense as saying that
> the Intel Processors support Hebrew. It is just another result of
> the brain wash M$ has been doing trying to extinguish the border
> between OS and user programs.
This really reminds me - does anyone here uses OSF/1 OS, Alpha and Mozilla?
is the hebrew the same as the Linux version of mozilla?
> * About Torvalds comments - being from Scandinavia, I am not surprised
> at all about them. They all fit the "Why cannot everyone in the
> world get along just like we do?" attitude. Imo, Torvalds should just
> just stick to technical issues that he is good at, just like we should do.
He's from Finland ;)
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
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Hetz Ben Hamo
hetz@kde.org
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