I hope that I can last more on this foundation than I lasted at the FSF, where I was removed by RMS after refusing to be an active part of the campaign to rename Linux as GNU/Linux.
RMS Marx Stalin, you never cease to amaze me.
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Anonymous2012-10-03 9:28
What you’re referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, NVIDIA/GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NVIDIA plus GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning NVIDIA/GNU/Linux system made useful by the NVIDIA graphics driver and the X.org X11 server.
Many computer users run a modified version of the NVIDIA/GNU/Linux system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of NVIDIA/GNU/Linux which is widely used today is often called “GNU/Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NVIDIA/GNU/Linux system, developed by NVIDIA Corporation. There really is a GNU/Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
GNU/Linux is the base system: the part of the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. It is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. GNU/Linux is normally used in combination with the NVIDIA graphics driver: the whole system is basically NVIDIA with GNU/Linux added, or NVIDIA/GNU/Linux. All the so-called “GNU/Linux” distributions are really distributions of NVIDIA/GNU/Linux.