The "G" in GIMP stood, once upon a time, for "General". It was changed to "GNU" at Richard Stallman's insistence (but with the consent of S&P, so it's not like it was completely hijacked). See the S&P interview at http://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/. Yet another case where Stallman's zealous efforts to push his brand name on people was successful. How long before we have GNUburgers and GNUfries with our GNUlunch? Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon Sandford" <marlon@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] GNU/Linux vs. Linux > <quote who="Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> when=Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:46:24 +0200> > > > > For those who do not know: the OS Linux was built by Linux Torvalds > > in 1991. > > Don't mean to be rude but its Linus Torvalds, not Linux Torvalds. :-) > In Ebonics I think that would be "the T man". > > The "OS Linux" is just a kernel called Linux, not a complete OS. > > > I grepped the current stable CVS (well, that of a few weeks ago) and > > found that a few files (mostly of the documentation type) mention > > Linux instead of GNU/Linux. > > > > Should we change these instances to GNU/Linux? > > <RMS impersonation> No matter how much of a GNUisance this might be, > IMO the G in GIMP should be thought of whilst carefully replacing all > the instances of Linux with GNU/Linux. </end impersonation> > > Seriously though my vote is for changing them :-) > > > -- > +---------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------+ > | ^ | Marlon Sandford | "Carpe Noctum" | > | 'v' | marlon [at] xealon.com +-----------------------+ > | / \ | PO Box 75585 Seattle WA 98125 | http://www.debian.org | > | /{ }\ | Mobile: +44 07855 627468 (London) | http://www.gnu.org | > | ^^-^^ | xealon.com/marlon/publickey.txt | http://www.kernel.org | > +---------+-----------------------------------+-----------------------+ > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >
