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GNU/Busybox ?!?GNU/Busybox ?!?Posted Mar 29, 2007 12:29 UTC (Thu) by greve (subscriber, #8385)In reply to: GNU/Busybox ?!? by k8to Parent article: The road to freedom in the embedded world
That is, I suspect he would insist on calling the whole thing GNU if he thought it would work. All I can say to this is that when I spoke to him, he never gave me that impression. In fact, he always seemed to make it clear that only a combination of the GNU System with the GNU Hurd kernel would be "the GNU System" in his eyes. But ultimately only RMS can tell us what RMS really thinks.
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GNU/Busybox ?!? Posted Mar 31, 2007 0:57 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] But this of course clearly underscores my point. Any production Hurd system would invariably include all sorts of software besides the GNU software, much of it as indespensible for real work as the kernel, but that would be "GNU" regardless of all the other software. The difference is that Linux is the defacto, existing name that people use to refer to the collection; its necessity is not unique. Thus you can see the attempt to affix GNU to Linux is not motivated by giving due credit, as none is intended when for the eventual Hurd system.
Please do further the FSF and FSFE's goals of promoting freedom by promoting the GNU project. The freedom ideals are important and deserve mention. But do it as openly and honestly as possible. Affixing it to Linux is a bad strategy.
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