Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:06:17AM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Furthermore, doesn't really explain why GNU/Linux is not
>    sufficient.
> 
> Because the goal of the GNU project is to create the GNU system, which
> doesn't use Linux as its kernel.

Is it?  That's the first time I hear about that.  As far as I know, the only
reason Linux isn't the official GNU kernel is that Linus didn't want that, not
because the GNU project had some principle objections.  (Can't find a link
just now, but I recall that Richard has asked Linus if he wanted Linux to be
the official GNU kernel.)

Thanks,
Bas

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