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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a2c26d --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<title>Incorrect Quotation +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> + <!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/incorrect-quotation.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> + +<h2>Incorrect Quotation</h2> + +<p>A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it +wasn't written by me.</p> + +<p>Here's the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from +statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. +It makes points that are mistaken or confused.</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to +as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling +it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system <em>unto +itself</em>, but rather <em>another free component of a fully +functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell +utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined +by POSIX.</em> Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU +system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of +events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called +“Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is +basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really +is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of +the system they use.</p> + +<p>Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the +machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is +an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it +can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux +is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the +whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the +so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of +GNU/Linux.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>The main error is that Linux is <em>not</em> strictly speaking part of +the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, +we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” +when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it +“GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.</p> + +<p>We don't use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure +what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages +we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating +system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever +important packages we could not find elsewhere.</p> + +<p>See <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">Linux and GNU</a> and +<a href="/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">GNU/Linux FAQ</a>, plus the history +in <a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">The GNU Project</a>.</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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