Principal contributors of the core system, eh?

Principal contributors of the core system, eh? - Well, yes

Posted Jun 8, 2002 5:51 UTC (Sat) by DeletedUser1800 ((unknown), #1800)
In reply to: Principal contributors of the core system, eh? by DeletedUser342
Parent article: Re: it's not GNU/Linux; it's GNU

You rightly said that the GNU tools are important and essential on _your_ systems/servers and that there is nothing else that is equally important (besides the kernel). Well, that's nice for you. I, on the other hand, use my machine as workstation. I have completely different priorities and KDE is more perceptibale and more important to me than all the GNU tools. Sure, the system might not run if I would remove all those tools, but that's not the point. The point is that X and KDE are primary for me and GNU is only secondary.

I would suggest, then, that you de-install all the GNU tools from your system - they are just wasting space and not being used. The fact is that without X, KDE, Gnome, etc. the system will still boot and be usable. Without either Linux or the GNU tools/libs this is not the case. THAT is why GNU and Linux are the key components and the rest is secondary.

All this debate is completely ideological.

You noticed. That may be because the FSF is firstly an ideological organisation. I realise ideology over anything but the dollar sign is off the corporate radar, but that doesn't invalidate it.

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