[Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux [was] Google drops Windows in their workplace
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Sat Jun 5 09:03:31 2010
On 06/05/2010 08:47 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
wrong - you are under the mistaken impression that the GNU project has
developed and maintains the GNU toolchain. That is not correct. Many
individuals have done and are doing this - the only thing is that some of
them
use the 'GNU' word. In fact, if I am not mistaken, Redhat maintains and
develops a good part of it. So without RMS and without GNU, the toolchain
would still exist and linux would still flourish. As far as I can see, those
projects that are directly developed and maintained by the GNU project do not
work properly and are mostly useless - like hurd.
Yes, Red Hat does maintain or contribute significantly to several GNU
projects including coreutils, Glibc, GCC etc and while I understand
your point, you seem to make a false distinction between directly and
indirectly maintained projects from GNU. GNU is a umbrella effort of
the FSF to create a completely free software environment and there is
participation from volunteers and multiple organizations, commercial
and otherwise. FSF doesn't employ anyone to directly to work on any of
the GNU projects anymore although they did in the past. Some of the GNU
projects are more successful than others but that is hardly remarkable.
Rahul
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