In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Nedd Ludd
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on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:52:27 -0400
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 19 July 2007 08:26 : \____
>>>
>>> No wonder the FSF get a bit shirty about GNU/Linux versus Linux when
>>> talking about the *operating system* (as opposed to the kernel).
>>
>> RMS is not a popular figure /everywhere/, but here he makes
>> a fair point, again. You can't treat GNU contributers as
>> though they are gardeners while Linus gets all the fame
>> (some call him a "God", which is something he hates...
>> rightly so because it makes him unpopular).
>
> RMS gets his fame from the gnu tools. gcc is GNU
> compiler collection. GNU get credit where credit
> is due. RMS just wants to latch onto a successful OS.
RMS has already latched onto a successful OS: Windows.
Windows is the most successful OS in all of history --
if one uses financial measurements (which is the primary
measurement Wall Street likes).
A lot of people will, of course, quibble (and they
should!), as Linux is an interesting OS and is garnering
quite a bit of attention. But it has a long way to go
before the Linux OS qua OS (as opposed to solutions using
Linux, e.g. IBM's z-series or turnkey webserver systems)
generates anywhere near the amount of billions Windows has
made during its lifetime since that fateful day in 1984 --
or was it 83?
Of course, Windows has a long way to go before it can equal
the quality of Linux and OSS -- though to be fair the OS
part of Windows (a small bit named NTOSKRNL.EXE, at least
in the XP family) is in fair (but not perfect) shape; the
botchups are primarily in the GUI and applications layer,
and in the conventions established long ago when WIN.COM /
AUTOEXEC.BAT was the method by which Windows started.
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