Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[Andy Tai <lichengtai yahoo com>]

I strongly oppose your objection here.  If you don't
like "GNU/Linux", you can continue to call it "Linux."
 RMS's views are widely known,  and if you disagree,
then simply disagree. Spending time to try to stop RMS
from advocating his views is not productive use of
your time. Leave that to Bill Gates, who can afford to
waste his time.  OK?
  
Also, please, you, do not start the debate here. 
Leave the arguments to slashdot, right?

--- Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:37:21PM -0600, Richard
> Stallman wrote:
> > What they are skilled at using is surely the whole
> GNU/Linux operating
> > system, not Linux the kernel by itself.  So would
> you please call them
> > "skilled GNU/Linux users"?
> 
>   I object this change, the name of the OS is widely
> recognized as Linux,
> the distinction in naming of this OS is not
> importance to GNOME,
> heck GNOME is as much as possible OS/Platform
> agnostic.
> 
>   I also object you - as the representative of the
> FSF - to restart
> that debate here, I don't think starting a battle on
> this contention
> point between the FSF and a significant part of the
> GNOME project is
> a good idea for both project relationship. That was
> discussed for nearly
> hour between the Board and a representative of the
> FSF in Sevilla one
> month ago. Apparently this was agreed upon, and the
> Board as a whole
> expressed it was not a productive use of our time. I
> suggest you go
> and talk personally with that representative.
> 
>   Thanks for not making us loose time, and avoid
> raising a battle
> which would likely prove detrimental to both FSF and
> GNOME.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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