On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 07:40 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think the demand by Stallman, and others to call Linux
>> 'GNU/Linux' is just stupid and childish. As if changing the name will
>> change the nature of the system. While I am an advocate of free and
>> open source software, and agree with some of his ideas, Stallman needs
>> a bloody valium. To me he's a lot like Jack Thompson, foams at the
>> mouth over the silliest things.
>
> While I personally think RMS is, well, let's say over zealous and leave
> it at that... He is what I'd call a necessary evil. He swings the
> pendulum so far the one direction that it keeps the whole thing449-442-806
> balanced. Irritating as he and his fellows may be, they do serve a
> needed purpose.
I think it is more honest to make reference to GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU.
Without both parts we would not have a working system to have this discussion
on. Linux systems would not exist without GNU tools, compiler and libs.
GNU+Linux+hardware = system
We _should_ pay attention to the shoulders of those that got us here!
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