that old GNU/Linux argument
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 02:58:32 UTC 2008
Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>> If they were compiled under cygwin/mingwin they could be windows
>> binaries. That doesn't justify changing their name.
>
> I think it's pretty clear that you're arguing to have the last word.
Which is only a problem when there is more than one participant.
> Your arguments have become nonsense. No one is suggesting that the
> names of any applications to "GNU" just because they were built on GNU.
>
> What we *are* advocating is that the GNU/Linux operating system be
> referred to as GNU/Linux because GNU is the name of the project whose
> goal is to provide a complete Free Software operating system.
But that's a small minority of the code in the distribution.
> All of
> the thousands of developers who have contributed their code to the GNU
> project agree that the name of the operating system is "GNU".
Great - if you had a distribution where that was the majority of the
content you might have a point. But that's not the case.
> If you
> think you're better qualified than they are too tell them what to call
> their software, then you're much too far out of touch for any of us to
> convince you otherwise.
I'm not the one trying to dictate the name used for other people's
software. I think it is wrong.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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