>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> RMS / FSF / GNU ask for the GNU prefix (where they consider it Joel> appropriate) Right. Joel> *NetBSD* is asking for it to be 'KNetBSD' rather than just 'NetBSD', Joel> because the latter, in their view (and theirs is the view one should Joel> respect, given they created it) is the full OS, not just the kernel. This Joel> is not the same as Linux, obviously. I wouldn't call the curtained legal threat ``asking''. >> No 'K' is required there, in fact advocating a 'K' is specifically in >> contradiction to what we're being asked to do by placing "GNU/" on the >> front in the first place. >> >> If it's GNU/KNetBSD then it should also be GNU/KLinux and GNU/KHurd. Joel> Only if Linux asked us to make it KLinux, and I *really* doubt that RMS Joel> wants it KHurd, since it's just 'GNU', with no kernel specification, Joel> formally (Hurd is the declared default assumption of kernel for the GNU Joel> system, or so I have been told). I've personally accepted KNetBSD for the sake of distinguishing from the other NetBSD-based Debian port. *sigh* They were there first :) ~velco
