-Hi Arising_uk,Arising_uk wrote:Not quite, the point of GNU was to be free of any proprietary software, completely free software, it has no Unix code in it and its packages have been Linux ported to many operating systems such as Solaris, Mac OS X and MS Windows. Stallman is not a 'desperate person' but a software genius and idealist of the highest order and his GPL and FSF are great achievements.
Please, go in quest of some informations... I learned computers for 4 years.
First, you seems to make a confusion between:
- free of any proprietary software; and
- Free (of fees).
Furthermore, you can have free proprietary software, as unfree non proprietary software (as an enhancement of some totally free-license software) as far as it permitted, of course.
I don't exactly know Gnu, but it seems to be free in both of senses, apparently.
This one is exactly a lie.Arising_uk wrote:it has no Unix code in it and its packages have been Linux ported to many operating systems such as Solaris, Mac OS X and MS Windows.
Mac OS has some free software at its basis, but certainly not a complete "Linux".
This is Unix which is the base of Mac OS & of Linux; and Linux is not a base of Unix. Moreover because you have almost thousands of Linux - this cannot be a base, and not even a standard!
Linux doesn't refer to Richard Stallman, but to Linus Thorvald !
Some of these people are or were genius (I think about the man who re-coded his pinter driver).
I wrote "desperate", not about them, but about some of those, who think to deliver Africa from hungry with free programs. And the way of distorsion is to make appeals for donations depending on arbitrary will.
This is nonsense!