> Norb, I want you to check the origin of every piece of software on your
> Linux system. I read an excellent piece one time that stated that only a
> small portion of the software on a Linux system is actually GNU
> software.
Approximatelly 28% actually.
> Marketing-wise, "GNU/Linux" is atrocious. The mainstream press (and even
> the Linux press) knows Linux as "Linux".
Uhhmm.... Didn't I already cover this?
(from a previous letter)
>Norbert Cartagena wrote:
<snip>
> Now, of course, we could take this argument in another light entirely -
> the word "Linux" just sounds so much cooler to market than GNU/Linux
> (reminiscent of OS/2 warp #, which sounds too much like a component
> model). Therefore the name for the collection of the software is made
> Linux, which just also happens to be the name of one of the components
> of the system - completely a marketting decision, much like the beloved
> Penguin.
</snip>
How 'bout it just gets dropped?
Norb
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