Georg Jakob wrote:
This statement is rather old. I do not think it is to the point, anyway: The Linux Kernel was and is compiled with gcc.
That's exactly M E Leypold's point #3, and I agree with him that this would be silly. I haven't seen any case where a program was named after the tools used to create it. What if I write a completely protable C program, should I call it GNU/Sun/Borland/Microsoft/<insert other C compiler makers>/HelloWorld? ;-)
Actually, I'd consider this a *very* bad thing because then everyone would be allowed (or required) to call their programs GNU/Something if they compile them with GCC, even if they have no other relation to the GNU project or the GNU system.
And according to this argumentation, Linux must now be called BitKeeper/GNU/Linux. ;-)
Frank