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Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
40hz:
There's a very good and accurate discussion of the whole GNU thing as it relates to Linux in the book Rebel Code by Glyn Moody. If you want the whole story, check it out. :Thmbsup:
Renegade:
As Linux is GPL, how does any distribution NOT become GPL? That violates the license. And if it's GPL, then it's GNU.
I don't get how any Linux distribution *can* be not GNU (without violating the terms of the GPL anyways).
Tuxman:
And if it's GPL, then it's GNU. -Renegade (December 31, 2010, 09:22 PM)
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Linux (the kernel) is not even GNU due to the driver BLOBs. No-one said that the whole distribution must also be.
Renegade:
And if it's GPL, then it's GNU. -Renegade (December 31, 2010, 09:22 PM)
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Linux (the kernel) is not even GNU due to the driver BLOBs. No-one said that the whole distribution must also be.
-Tuxman (December 31, 2010, 09:28 PM)
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Do you have any references? I'd be interested in reading more on it.
Tuxman:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
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