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In article <78ac9d$23r@news3.newsguy.com>,
Greg Lindahl <lindahl@pbm.com> wrote:
>seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> But what if the person who developed GNU MP was planning to develop a
>> desktop calculator, and maybe was already working on it?  Does the fact that
>> the other developer had that vision make your calculator "GNU/RennCalc"?

>Uh, seebs, can you please stop repeating old flamewars? Maybe this is
>new for comp.lang.tex, but this went around about 5 times on
>gnu.misc.discuss already, at great length. I suspect that most of the
>readers of comp.text.tex just don't give a crap, either. And even
>Linus asked people to stop flaming about GNU/Linux. So shut up already.

Sorry... I just saw an argument I found particularly flawed, and felt the
need to debate it.  I don't really care that much about the terminology - I
just object to that rationalization for it.

-s
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