On Jul 20, 2008, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No - just that I think the argument is equivalent is like complaining > about someone calling a Mustang a car, instead of calling it a Ford > Mustang. We're not talking of a "is-a" relationship, but rather of a "part-of" relationship. How about calling a Mustang a tire? That would be the correct parallel. Because, you know, following the Linux-is-an-OS logic, the tires are pretty important, and the car really wouldn't run without them, and it's the last part you add to a car before it runs, so let's call it tire, even though there are more important parts of the car that took far more work to build, such as the motor. There's a reason why custom racing cars (say Formula 1) are most often identified not only by the pilot's name, but also by the team, the motor and the tires. -- 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
