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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?


From: Olaf Buddenhagen
Subject: Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:13:09 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 03:21:18PM -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
> Em Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:44:23 +0000 Brandon Invergo <address@hidden> escreveu:

> > This goes back to my point that the problem with calling something
> > "The GNU System" is that it implies that there is a single, specific
> > set of software that defines the system.
> 
> It would only imply that if we intended it to mean so.

But that's not how it works...

When you say "*this* is GNU", you always carry the implication that
"everything else is not GNU". You might say that this is not what you
mean -- but it is how people will read it.

-antrik-



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