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The world rejoiced as Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've seen him on a number of occasions, and it occupies considerable
bits of his time _every_ time.

>> > 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.

You might want to read that again and see exactly what it was that I
compared to Nazi Germany.

There is no "comparison" involving comparing Nazi Germany with
anything.

Either it's not being compared with anything, in which case there's
"no comparison involving Nazi Germany," or, if you really _must_ have
a comparison, it's a "self-reference," where Nazi Germany is being
compared with itself, which would be pretty tautological, and
trivially completely appropriate.
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