This is the best joke I've heard lately!
You've made my day, Richard!
:-) :-) :-) :-)..................
Now, seriously GNU (is not unix) but Linux is unixlike so ...
GNU/Linux is an antinomia !!
You recall??? is the barber that shaves himself and the set of all
sets!!!
Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> If we must name the system to
> acknowledge all the contributing projects, we're going to end up with a
> decidedly Entish name. :-)
>
> You are right: we cannot possibly list, in the name of the system, all
> the projects that wrote programs which turned out to be useful to
> include in the operating system. There are too many of them. So it
> wouldn't be valid for any one project to say, "Mention us in the
> system's name, because we wrote some of these programs".
>
> The operating system should be named from the project that started
> developing it, the project that went beyond writing individual free
> programs. The GNU Project did this. We set the goal of *a free
> operating system*, dedicated years of strenuous effort to that goal,
> and in the process developed more of the system than any other
> project. We gave the system the name "GNU" (which is why the project
> is the GNU Project).
>
> But I think it's proper to add six more characters, "/Linux", to give
> credit to Linus Torvalds for his contribution. We cannot mention
> every contributor, but we can mention one especially important
> contributor. The GNU Project started development of the system, and
> in a sense Linus finished it.
>
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