On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:03:06PM +0100, ${john}$ wrote:Just in case anybody cares that perhaps a name should describe and distinguish, rather than keep RMS happy (god help a world where that was the #1 priority).
what worries me here is that "GNU/" is added without fully understanding what it means, just to keep RMS happy.
Well I'm suggesting it be added as a sensible way to distinguish, not to appease anyone. The difference between it and vanilla NetBSD is that a substantial chunk of the system is GNU software, and that's all the "GNU/" would mean as far as I'm concerned.
Now *Linux* was a case where it was added just to keep RMS happy.
(Personally, I'd have told him where to stick it. Laughable hypocrisy -- this guy calls the BSD advertising clause obnoxious, then harangues everyone to credit the GNU project not merely in the software, but the name of their product!)
-- John Ineson
