I am a musician, a taker of pictures, a rider of bikes, a father to plants, and roller of skateboards (no tricks). And I advocate Free Software and GNU/Linux.

 

A Kernel of all things!

Just finished watching “Revolution OS” again, after a year or more.

I still can’t believe that with all the work the GNU Project put into the GNU operating system, that Linus Torvalds could come along, with a Kernel of all things, and take the credit away from the Free Software Foundation, and thus, also taking away the credit from the X.Org, Apache, etc. developers.

A Kernel of all things! A Kernel! The one thing in an operating system that can’t actually be call an operating system by itself, is used as the name of the GNU operating system!

A Kernel! You can replace the Linux Kernel with the BSD Kernel, and have a fully functional system. But without the GNU software, the Linux Kernel couldn’t even be compiled, because it uses GCC, and actually would have to be modified in order to use something like uClibc, so would the binary blobs, and changing the binary blobs isn’t as easy as the rest because they are proprietary, no one can change them, or fix them. The Linux Kernel can’t use EgLibc as a replacement, because it is just gLibc, it’s “Embedded gLibc.”

Red Hat got publicity in the market share place. Being called “Linux” on Television, they watched as the term “Linux” as an operating system was spread on Television. And they continue to do so.

That should of been GNU/Linux, that should have been Stallman watching with the Red Hat developers.

I just found out about a license called the “ACT License” the “Author’s Choice of Terminology License” developed by InaTux, via: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1174592

Such a license would have stopped all of this, although it was just developed, and then discontinued, but still! A little bit of work, and a little bit of tinkering with the license in order for it to work along side the GPL, and we’d be in business.

  1. jakedth posted this

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