On Jul 15, 2008, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I object to the FSF asking for credit *only for them*. Then you object to something they don't do. And that's covered in the FAQ as well. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#justgnu > Asking for Linux distros to be called GNU/Linux makes it sound like > the FSF created Linux How so? I read it as the GNU [operating system] on top of [the kernel] Linux, which is a very precise description of the situation. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#whyslash Anyhow, does GNU+Linux alleviate that perception? > Firefox, Apache, Perl, Gnome, OO, and all those other big parts > of common distros. *That* I object to. Why don't you object to calling those Linux, then? It's not like Mozilla was created for GNU/Linux. Or Apache. Or Perl. Or Gnome. Or OOo. Why do you think it's any more right to call them Linux than GNU+Linux? Please check any argument you use to reject naming the system after a primary contributor, and note that it probably applies just as well to naming it after any other contributor. > If the FSF wants to create their own distro that consists primarily of > the Linux kernel and the GNU software, they may call it GNU/Linux (or > anything else they choose ;). Asking for anything else to be called > GNU/Linux is pure hubris. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#gnudist -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
