MJ Ray wrote:
Alexis Lee alexis@turton.com writes: To paraphrase RMS, "Richard Stallman is not the great Satan". I doubt even he would expect something which is (still) impossible with our number plate system. There must be more "GNU" plates out there than "L1NUX" plates, anyway ;-)
I happen to agree with the man on the GNU/Linux issue, in fact for reasons of laziness I think it should be called GNUX from now on. The amount of work involved in creating all the GNU tools is wildly disproportionate to that of writing the kernel (AFAIK).
He also took a fantastic risk for moral reasons, rather than doing it Just For Fun (which is cool, but less admirable).
Alexis