>not people who actually do real work with it.
What kind of logic is that? If that's true, what does this mean?
>Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you
need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may
be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used
with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. These tools
aren't in the distribution - ask me (or GNU) for more info.
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01
So, is Linus wrong? Who is right? The people who rode on the "open-source" grift of the 90s, or the GNU Project?