Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development [LWN.net]

Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 19, 2003 21:17 UTC (Wed) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459)
In reply to: Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development by lolando
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

Remember that GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix to name the fact that once Unix turned proprietary. As such GNU is a good name for a free operating system - whether it is endorsed by the FSF or not. Hopefully not too much documentation for The Hurd has been released under the GFDL.

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Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 19, 2003 23:00 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

You can always pretend that Linux stand for "Linux Is Not UniX" :)

Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development

Posted Nov 20, 2003 22:45 UTC (Thu) by argent (guest, #17054) [Link]

"Remember that GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix to name the fact that once Unix turned proprietary."

Buddy, it didn't *turn* proprietary. It's always been an open system, but it didn't start out open source.

GNU's not UNIX for a lot of reasons, some of which have nothing to do with the license and everything to do with the OS design. And as far as the OS design is concerned, Linux is more a traditional "UNIX" than a lot of the systems that are currently running real live honest-to-Ritchie Bell Labs code, including the OS running on Dennis Ritchie's desktop right now.