On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:05 PM, p.daniels wrote: > On Monday October 6 2008 11:08:59 Dan Armbrust wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Smith, Craig A > > > > <Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com> wrote: > > >>> GNU has indeed made huge contributions to what's on our > machines. > > >> > > >> GNOME, KDE, driver, OpenOffice.org > > > > > > Don't forget about the listserv we're using. > > > Mailman is another GNU GPL project from the FSF. > > > > Yes, but you are also mixing together projects written by the GNU > > developers, with software which is simply GPL licensed. > > > > For example, GNU shouldn't be given credit for things like KDE and > > open office, simply because they choose a license published by the > > FSF/GNU folks. > > Well, in an extended sense, maybe they should. Were it not for the > GNU platform there wouldn't be KDE (or Linux, for that matter). > -pete, who's still on the fence about the name change, just trying > to play devil's advocate Not to pick a nit, here, but Linux exists entirely without GNU. A full linux-based OS is hard to come by without it, however. --- Eric Crist