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0 pointssamtheprogram1y ago0 comments

So, OS’s that don’t ship with GNU components aren’t Unix?

See: any BSD.

All of the things you mention in your post have _alternatives_ that also comply with whatever they reference: there are other MP3 encoders, there are other types of gas, there are other democratic republics…

And more importantly, GNU isn’t Unix.

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Y_Y1y ago

> So, OS’s that don’t ship with GNU components aren’t Unix?

Why would you write this? Are you trolling, or do you believe that's really what was meant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent

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