libraries and applications off of you know off of this these header files So it's a reality it happens right now you can do it now you can run Linux without GNU And so there you kind of have to question. Okay. Well is the GNU prefix now necessary because we're not running GNU on the thing or is it still historically necessary because once again Linux wouldn't even exist as an OS if it hadn't been for GNU there at the beginning and so on and then you get back into the old Argument of well, what about intent like if you didn't think that you were building a GNU system But you happened to be using the free GNU tools that were provided to you without any kind of caveat in a license anywhere that you have to prefix your project name With the term GNU do you are you really is it necessary for you to call the thing? GNU something or another and blog post goes on a little bit more about Sort of how GNU is is actually quite a bad implementation of POSIX Which I think in many ways that's almost (6/53)
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