-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 January 2003 15:27, Ely Levy wrote: > then why Gnu/linux? > call it GPL/linux or fs/linux
What matters is the meaning attributed to the act of naming, not to the name's literal meaning. To call something gpl/linux today wouldn't mean anything to anyone without an explanation (people might ask "is there a non-gpl'd linux then?"). gnu/linux doesn't literally mean 'we support the gnu ideas', but most people who say it do mean that. As to why rms started campaigning about gnu/linux and not some other name, well, the credit issue was there too (it just wasn't the most important thing) and I think it sounds better, too :-) And also the GNU is tied to rms's ideas more than the GPL (since the linux kernel _is_ free software and is GPL'd, but represents a very different philosophy). - -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://www.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+KA8GUI2RQ41fiVERAkk6AJ9ZXnKS1YDq2JWNo4GI9OmktG4kDgCXbBjk VoimEHzr360aZ7GLlW1fJg== =6Qck -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================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]
