On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On 2003-01-17Dan 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),
If you want the most balanced opinion on the so-called "Trusted Computing" and the Palladium chip, check: http://lwn.net/Articles/7870/ (Bruce Schnieier's Crypto-gram for August 2002) To me it sounded like something UNIX systems can well do without. Regards, Shlomi Fish ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ================================================================= 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]
