Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:30:53 -0500 | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him | From | Brian McGroarty <> |
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:42:00AM +0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:46:01 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > Just as every other free software developers. Yet the _majority_ of those > > GNU developers seem to be quite happy with the way they get credits, > > otherwise they would complain on their own. You just can't decide for the > > whole community how it should be done. > > He's not deciding, he's requesting. There is a difference, and there > must be a reason why so many people get so incensed at such a simple, > rational, reasonable request.
The whole blowup over RMS requesting the GNU/Linux tag is that a lot of folks think he's talking about the kernel, and not Linux distributions.
Even many folks "in the know" seem to miss this distinction: RMS hasn't ever asked that the kernel be called GNU/Linux. He asks that "Linux distributions," which are called "Linux" by the public at large, carry the extra tag. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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