On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:38:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jul 29, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> If you are going to make this effort, why not just ditch the kernel >>> too and re-implement any missing drivers for the *BSDs or OpenSolaris >>> instead? >> >> Because that person really really wants to call it Linux, and if Linux >> wans't even part of it, that would make even less sense. > > The real problem here is that the name is a 'brand' that intentionally > drags an unwanted extreme political connotation along with what should > simply be one of several available unix-like toolsets. Please stop extremating things. > Just as 'free' > is deceptively used to mean restricted software Please turn the reality distortion field off. > GNU means those same > restrictions and a vocal political advocacy for them to the detriment of > users who would be better served without the restrictions. Please stop lying. > If there > were some other word to give credit and attribution to the authors and > quality of the software minus the extreme political stance, I'm sure no > one would object. Having only one name to describe it is sort of like > saying you can't be religious unless you are in a crusade or inquisition > (insert your favorite atrocity-in-the-name-of-religion here...). In short, please stop. Rui -- P'tang! Today is Sweetmorn, the 65th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
