On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 13:27, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ean Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that it is worth pointing out that "GNU" is not a registered > > trademark of the Free Software Foundation. The only barrier to using it > > would be politeness and deference on our part to the FSF. > > Right. So let's be appropriately polite and deferential with the > FSF's name, and not call something that's based on non-free software > "GNU"
The FSF wants things to be called GNU/Linux, because its a GNU system with a linux kernel. The same logic would extend to GNU/w32 in that its a gnu system (or as much a gnu system as anything else) with a w32 kernel/ui.
