From 1ae0306a3cf2ea27f60b2d205789994d260c2cce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Grothoff Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:29:45 +0200 Subject: add i18n FSFS --- .../blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 121 insertions(+) create mode 100644 talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html (limited to 'talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/incorrect-quotation.html') 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 @@ + + +Incorrect Quotation +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation + + + +

Incorrect Quotation

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A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it +wasn't written by me.

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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.

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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 unto +itself, but rather 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. 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.

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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.

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The main error is that Linux is not 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.

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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.

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See Linux and GNU and +GNU/Linux FAQ, plus the history +in The GNU Project.

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