This guest column by Kevin Dankwardt originated as a talkback to the LinuxDevices.com article entitled “What is Linux?” Dankwardt writes . . .

“I think asking the question 'what is Linux' is important because of the issue of 'forking' that concerns many of us. To get a little scholastic here, we want to know the definition of Linux to avoid ambiguity.”

“It's like the story by William James about an argument over whether a man 'goes round' a squirrel. A man is on one side of a tree with a squirrel opposite of him. Whenever the man moves around the tree a bit, the squirrel moves an equal amount always staying opposite of the man. The man eventually moves all of the way around the tree. The question then is 'did the man go round the squirrel?' . . . “

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