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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  To  : <phil@hutton.sh>
  Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:12:16 +0930

RE: linux is not GNU/linux [was RedHat 7.1 reliability?]

<snip>

> Oh no, a Richard Debate.  ;-)

puh!

(ok, so he knows me well :)

> I understood your point - I just think it's wrong.  What you are
> suggesting is that in some cases it's appropriate to consider the
> browser to be the operating system.  It's not - that's like
> considering the windscreen to be the whole car.  It's just wrong.

Yes, it's wrong. Technically.

> And I don't think that any users actually think that their browser is
> their operating system - they just don't know the answer to the
> question (what OS are you using?) and say the first thing that comes
> into their head.  They might as well have said "Knickers...
> Cabbages... It doesn't have a beak."

rofl (lots)

rr

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