Richard Stallman wrote:
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>     What is an operating system? An OS could be considered an "application",
> 
> You could consider an OS an "application", and you could consider
> hardware software, just as you could consider the Earth a pumpkin.  My
> response is that you're starting from assumptions I find questionable,
> so I don't accept the conclusions.

Isn't that what you, Richard, do all the time here, starting from
assumptions?  Didn't you do that right from the start when you came
to our lists to post the wrong conclusions you draw from your
un-researched assumptions?