On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:26:41PM -0600, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2002 10:09 am, Florin Iucha wrote:
> > My opinion on this thread gravitates around a few themes:
> >    1. Linux is not a product. "RedHat Linux" is a product.
> 
> Websters Dictionary:
> Product 
>    1. Anything that is produced, whether as the result of
>       generation, growth, labor, or thought.

Florin's point still holds.  Linux is not a single product anymore
than Unix is a single product or Microsoft Windows is. At most under
Webster's permissive definition of "product" GNU/Linux is a
diverse family of products including different software depending
on who you ask and produced by a wide variety of people.

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