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From: Elmar Haneke <nospam AT haneke DOT de>
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Subject: Re: GNU/Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:27:22 +0100
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J. Grant wrote:

> I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux.  Have you
> considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
> the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment?

(Debian) GNU/Linux is an Linux-Distribution using GNU-GPL. GNU/Windows 
in analogy should be an Windows-distribution using GNU-GPL - you might 
ask Microsoft to release :-)

Elmar




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