The Linux equivalent of the Nigerian email scam. It’s a copy pasta manifesto they can use to “interject” with and dump verbatim on any blog or forum they wish.
It feels a lot like the tactics the Christian-belters use to push their religious tracts and hoping to convert a few heathens by sticking a Jesus Fish on their car’s bumper.
It reads as follows:
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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Upvoted.
And about time too. It’s amazing how many of these TMs are so much part of the wallpaper that we just assume that everybody has heard of them, isn’t it?
I don’t generally comment twice on a TM, but heck.
This one needs to be said.
C&P is ignorant at best, and IdLikeEtc is akin to intellectual self-harm.
The fact that the freetards’ best argument is copied word for word is so emblematic of all the programs that were cloned feature-for-feature from their proprietary counterparts. It’s like the software version of those Soviet-era state produced knockoffs – and how appropriate, given that the philosophy is identical to communism.
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