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It should be GNU+Linux, not GNU/Linux. This is where the attribution people get seized-up and go all fruity-colored, but its a fact: these are not related sub-

It should be GNU+Linux, not GNU/Linux. This is where the attribution people get seized-up and go all fruity-colored, but its a fact: these are not related sub-brands of each other, they are connected components. You cannot divide Linux from GNU, only add and subtract it.

sp332 14y ago
What do you mean? There were already examples given of Linux without GNU (Android, busybox), and GNU can run on kernels other than Linux (HURD, mach). They are quite divisible.
- seclorum 14y ago
  I think he means that Linux and GNU don't need each other, therefore its not /, its +, as in one is not a sub-component of the other.
  - sp332 14y ago
    Oh! I get it now. primitur: It's supposed to be GNU on (or over) Linux, like TCP/IP.