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SubjectRe: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
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Brandon S. Allbery writes:> 
> In message <199901020833.DAA24808@saturn.cs.uml.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan"

>> to be mentioned anymore. When I see i386-redhat-linux on all the
>> FSF stuff I compile, I will reconsider that decision. Until then,
>> I hope others will join me in ignoring you as punishment.

> That's hypocrisy.
>
> "i386-redhat-linux", eh? On S.u.S.E.? Debian? Stampede?
> Pacific Hi-Tech? None of which are sufficiently different to
> require a different canonical triplet. So all of them would end
> up being identified as "redhat"... and I fail to see how identifying
> other Linux distributions as Red Hat (or Red Hat wannabees) differs
> from your complaint about "GNU/Linux".

Oh please.

The middle part is your vendor. My vendor was Red Hat. You can have
i386-sls-linux, i386-tamu-linux, i386-mcc-linux, or whatever.
The default would be "unknown", not "redhat".

That is just the way the system was originally designed. Your vendor
goes in the middle. If usefulness matters more than correctness, then
maybe i386-libc6.0-linux2.2 would be nice. I'm happy with that too.

Playing games to glorify St. Ignucious is not acceptable.

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