On 06/01/15 09:28, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > Em Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:40:48 -0500 > Felipe López <felipe.lo...@openmailbox.org> escreveu: > >> I still think that calling the Guix distro "GNU" would have been >> better, and I don't see how calling it "Guixotic - the reference >> distribution of GNU" is any different from calling it "GNU", since >> saying "the reference distro" implies the same issues RMS and others >> saw in calling the distro "GNU". > > I agree. In fact calling it "GNU's reference distribution" could even > worsen the problems seen by RMS, because of the explicit goal > attributed to the distribution of being used as a canonical template. > To me the purpose of the GNU project is more ethical and symbolic than > technical: to provide the mythical --- entirely free --- GNU system > and not necessarily to make a distribution for technical reference. > IMHO, the GNU project is missing the point. >
Yes, I think that most of the GNU people are very technical, so they tend to think in low-level terms. This, IMHO, makes it more difficult for the average Jane to know about GNU and its philosophy. > Needless to say, I'll continue to call it simply "GNU". I invite > everyone else to do the same. Given that the GNU+Linux operating > system has gotten the wrong name "Linux" by habit and popularity, > maybe we could make "Guixotic" (or whatever) get the right name "GNU" > by a similar practice. > > I'll do that too when I start distributing and writing about "Guixotic" where I live. -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/ ID Klefo PGP : 0x8A296B99 Marko fingrala: 7ED8 4963 C881 647C 9DA0 FDE6 881B 91ED 8A29 6B99
