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		dragonwriter on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Profile of Linus Torvalds To be fair to RMS, commercial entities selling "Operating Systems" have usually used the label, even before RMS and the Free Software movement were widely noticed by outsiders, to refer to not only the kernel, but the whole package of software and tools sold as a package with it.

emodendroket on June 16, 2015 [–]

Who knows. I see ads all the time for the "Xfinity Entertainment Operating System" which as far as I can tell is just television service.

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