On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:10, Mikael Hallendal wrote: > tor 2004-01-22 klockan 23.39 skrev Ciaran O'Riordan: > > > The technical advantages have led many companies to push this goal under > > the carpet, and try to sell restraints that run on top of the OS. > > Calling the OS "GNU/Linux" is a good way to unhide the goal of freedom. > > If anyone wants to send a friendly reminder to someone to use whatever > term they see as the right name, please do so in private. There is no > point in sending all these messages to the foundation list everytime > someone says Linux. People work on GNOME, GNU, Linux, whatnot for > different reasons, just face it, not everyone are doing it for the same > reasons as FSF. Perhaps you should have send this friendly reminder also in private? Or does this "don't bother the foundation list" policy only apply to those you disagree with? These messages wouldn't be here anymore if people could have just let rms post his message (which imho was quite politely formulated) without having to argue about it. Andreas PS: There is a G in GNOME -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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