Hello cgf, The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts straight.
Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the Lindows case this was hinted at reciently. JG Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:12:56PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > >>I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you >>considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use >>the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? This would be good publicity for >>the GNU tools that are installed on Windows machines. Also it would make >>it well known that many Windows machines use GNU software for shell >>scripting and other tasks supported by the Cygwin enviroment. >> > > I don't see how naming is really anyone's decision but Red Hat's. We > own Cygwin. Certainly Cygwin owes a lot to the GNU tools from FSF but > we are not going to be renaming the distribution because of that. I > think it would be confusing to refer to it by two names. > > Even if that was not the case, we can't use the word "Windows" in this > connotation since there are, arguably, trademark issues with doing that. > We used to use the term gnu-win32 but were asked to change. I think > that part of the reason was that we don't want to use the word "win" > with relation to Windows. > > Finally, to follow your analogy, the name would be GNU/Cygwin anyway, > not GNU/Windows. Cygwin is equivalent to Linux in this scenario. > > cgf > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
