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Article #4255Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Kevin Everets
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:27
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Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes: > Quoth Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com>: > > is demanding? It all seems like a request (with a "please" even!) to > > me. > > I've heard RMS telling passers-by that "calling `The GNU System' Linux > is incorrect; it probably should be `GNU/Linux'" enough times... > > For someone not feeling particularly "demanding" about it, it sure > seems to occupy a lot of his time in public. In the document you reference, I saw no demand. Nor have I seen any document which made such a demand. I've only been in RMS's presence once, but during that time he only ever requested people call it GNU/Linux, and think about why they wouldn't. I've never heard him (or heard tell of him prior to this) telling passers-by anything about GNU or Linux. It does seem to occupy a lot of his time in public, but only because he cares enough about it to continually request that people think about their naming conventions. > > You made a comparison involving Nazi Germany, which is the basis of > > Godwin's Law, no? > > No, I did not. I did not compare anything at all to Nazi Germany. Read what I wrote: you made a comparison involving Nazi Germany. > You might want to read what I wrote again. Here it is: >> It's much the same as when Americans head to Europe and expect people >> to virtually bow at their feet for having liberated them from Nazi >> Germany in World War II. A comparison. Involving Nazi Germany. I think that's pretty clear. Cheers, Kevin. -- Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> GPG: 0x86D6C5DD 48FA 053B FB7D 9BF9 FE4C 02D3 6346 055B 86D6 C5DD
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