in no place I've seen RMS saying that it should be called GNU/linux cause of idles, I might be wrong but I'm preety sure that his most used argument is that a lot of gnu programers worked on the system and calling it linux gives credit only to the guy who made the kernel,
do you have a written prof to your claim?;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Ely Levy wrote: > > > this argument might had some point a while ago but today ? > > why should it be named gnu/linux and not kde/linux? > > I agree that GNU people did usefull stuff but so did kde/qt people > > and so did X11 people by giving credit to one group we inslult another. > > yea gnu did gcc and few other untilities and so did other groups > > so who would you give credit to first? > > > > One remark: > > RMS's point was that s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g was not so much a matter of > credit but a matter of ideas: what are the ideas behind the group. "GNU" > stands for a set of ideal, which you may (or may not) want as part of your > LUG (GLUG? GUG? ;-) ). > > It is also interesting to see what different bodies in the "linux" > community do in the wake of "trusted" computing initatives. I haven't seen > Linus voicing publicly for or against. RMS is publicly active against > (this is why Oleg was so outraged: the lack of action by Linus). > > I personally support them, but then again, I'm not a member of your users > group (see: i've dodged this one ;-) ) so what I think here is not > relevant. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
