On 2003-01-17 Dan Armak wrote: > On Friday 17 January 2003 14:46, you wrote: > > 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?;) > > Yes indeed. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html. In there rms > explains that distributions should be named gnu/linux to promote the free > software philosophy and to make users aware of the history of gnu and linux;
Also, during the talk at IBM, RMS said that he would not have insisted on the naming issue, *if* the battle was already won. But since there are still many dangers lurking (treacerous computing sounded very scary to me), he thinks it's important to insist that Linux is a result of an ideological movement to create a FREE operating system, and not just a nice pice of code written by some cool guy(s). There was a PLAN, and the plan was started by GNU and the GPL. (The above are my words, not his, this is NOT exactly what he said) Personally I find the term GNU/Linux somewhat unpractical. Maybe that's not a good excuse if it is really important, Haven't figured that out for myself yet. Any way, I do use the term GNU/Linux, especially in the written word. The name of a mailing list is a written word, so I think it would be a good idea. On 2003-01-17 Shlomi Fish wrote: > You can also call yourself the Jerusalem Free Software Club (JFSC) to > underscore you approve of FreeBSD and friends as well. Good idea :) And not only FreeBSD of course but 95% of the software that comes with any GNU/Linux distribution is not a part of linux, but just 'Free software' ================================================================= 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]
