Re: GPL version 3 comments

[David Kastrup]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    I use Linux, not GNU, BSD, or other Unix-based operating systems,
>    and want to release programs under the GPL.
>
> Linux is just a kernel, using it without any operating system is
> impossible.

Nonsense.  Embedded applications work directly on top of a kernel.

> GNU is one operating system that works with Linux,

More nonsense.  Operating systems certainly require a kernel (in fact,
the standard Computer Science definition pretty much covers _only_ the
kernel unless we are talking Microkernel-based systems).  GNU without
kernel is not an operating system.

Not even in RMS' terminology (who calls the whole of GNU/Linux a
variant GNU system).

> and there are some embedded versions too.

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