The web server glides on pure inertia. The libraries are not much less work than rolling your own. Their documentation is a joke.
Not really any different to the FSF, and all they really have is the userland for GNU/Linux distributions. In 3 decades they *still* dont have a production kernel.
Oh, just drop the prefix on Linux already. Linux is no more GNU/Linux than Minix is GNU/Minix. Consider that the GNU tools were ported to Minix, just like they originally were for Linux, and in the past, Minix has been distributed with a complete GNU toolchain set, just like Linux is. Linux was and is GPL, but it is not and has not ever been part of the GNU project.
So I guess by the same metric, Android isn't Linux either. It is called GNU/Linux, not GNU Linux, the difference being that it is the mix of both tools, not saying that Linux comes from GNU.
Calling it GNU/Linux is suggesting that Linux is just as much a part of the GNU project, as much as gcc, flex, bison, bash, gawk, gdb, and other tools. It is not. It's Linux... not GNU/Linux... the prefix was added by people who simply got tired of waiting for Hurd when Linux did everything that they wanted, and serendipitously was also released under the GPL, but it was not ever part of the GNU project, so GNU/Linux is as much of a misnomer as BSD Linux (since Linux can be distributed with BSD tools instead).
If being distributed with the GNU tools were sufficient to put a GNU prefix on the OS, then, as I said, Minix should be GNU/Minix. The HPUX system that I used in when I was in university had all GNU tools replacing the standard ones, but it would be an error to say I was ever using GNU/HPUX.
The GNU tools were *ported* to Linux... just like they were to every other system, and by virtue of Linux being highly similar to sysv,, and ultimately actually posix compliant, that port was trivial. But that doesn't make it GNU.
"the prefix was added by people who simply got tired of waiting for Hurd"
Wrong : the prefix was added by Richard Stallman himself, who wanted people to remember that if Linus Torvalds did the kernel, GNU built the ecosystem it resides in.
I heard him in person saying this in a speech over 10 years ago.
Just because RMS makes up the notion that Linux is somehow part of the GNU project doesn't make it so.
Let's try a car analogy.... I might manufacture almost all of the parts for an an automobile body, but when somebody else puts those pieces together into a single car, the car is still branded with *their* name... not mine.
Redhat Linux, Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux.... these are all reasonable. GNU, however... does not construct their own distribution of Linux, so GNU/Linu
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The web server glides on pure inertia. The libraries are not much less work than rolling your own. Their documentation is a joke.
Not really any different to the FSF, and all they really have is the userland for GNU/Linux distributions. In 3 decades they *still* dont have a production kernel.
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So I guess by the same metric, Android isn't Linux either. It is called GNU/Linux, not GNU Linux, the difference being that it is the mix of both tools, not saying that Linux comes from GNU.
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Calling it GNU/Linux is suggesting that Linux is just as much a part of the GNU project, as much as gcc, flex, bison, bash, gawk, gdb, and other tools. It is not. It's Linux... not GNU/Linux... the prefix was added by people who simply got tired of waiting for Hurd when Linux did everything that they wanted, and serendipitously was also released under the GPL, but it was not ever part of the GNU project, so GNU/Linux is as much of a misnomer as BSD Linux (since Linux can be distributed with BSD tools instead).
If being distributed with the GNU tools were sufficient to put a GNU prefix on the OS, then, as I said, Minix should be GNU/Minix. The HPUX system that I used in when I was in university had all GNU tools replacing the standard ones, but it would be an error to say I was ever using GNU/HPUX.
The GNU tools were *ported* to Linux... just like they were to every other system, and by virtue of Linux being highly similar to sysv,, and ultimately actually posix compliant, that port was trivial. But that doesn't make it GNU.
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"the prefix was added by people who simply got tired of waiting for Hurd"
Wrong : the prefix was added by Richard Stallman himself, who wanted people to remember that if Linus Torvalds did the kernel, GNU built the ecosystem it resides in.
I heard him in person saying this in a speech over 10 years ago.
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I never heard RMS talk about GNU/Minix; I did about GNU/Linux
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Just because RMS makes up the notion that Linux is somehow part of the GNU project doesn't make it so.
Let's try a car analogy.... I might manufacture almost all of the parts for an an automobile body, but when somebody else puts those pieces together into a single car, the car is still branded with *their* name... not mine.
Redhat Linux, Slackware Linux, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu Linux.... these are all reasonable. GNU, however... does not construct their own distribution of Linux, so GNU/Linu
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RMS is incorrect. It is no more important for Linux than it is for Minix, which was also built with gcc.
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