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Re: GNU/Windows
- From: Elmar Haneke <nospam at haneke dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:27:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: GNU/Windows
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- References: <3CBA5348.5030805@jguk.org>
J. Grant wrote:
> I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
> considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
> the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment?
(Debian) GNU/Linux is an Linux-Distribution using GNU-GPL. GNU/Windows
in analogy should be an Windows-distribution using GNU-GPL - you might
ask Microsoft to release :-)
Elmar
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