"This famous controversy is there ever since I became aware of operating systems known as GNU/Linux. The GNU General Public License, which is used by Linux as well as most GNU software, armors both characters. GNU/Linux is the term coined by the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman and people who support FSF, for operating systems composed of the FSF's GNU software and the Linux kernel; such systems are generally called Linux."
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Member since:2006-02-08
If you don't want to deal with the facts then that's your problem. But Gnome has nothing to do with GNU, except for some historical naming.
GNU software is software that has FSF/GNU copyright. It's that simple.
Let's deal with a couple facts here, shall we? http://www.gnome.org/about/
Quoted from the above URL:
GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project, dedicated to giving users and developers the ultimate level of control over their desktops, their software, and their data. Find out more about the GNU project and Free Software at gnu.org.
RE[7]: OSX != "Darwin"; Gnu = Freedom
Member since:2006-05-05
Despite what that page says, Gnome is not part of the GNU project. At one time, it might have been, but that is long since over. The Gnome foundation has nothing to do with GNU, but if you want to spread GNU FUD then that's your problem.
Please don't spread FUD. Here is the FSF url for GNOME: http://directory.fsf.org/gnome.html
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Member since:2005-08-11
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2005-07-29
Gnome is GNU software.
If you don't want to deal with the facts then that's your problem. But Gnome has nothing to do with GNU, except for some historical naming.
GNU software is software that has FSF/GNU copyright. It's that simple.