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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing
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Imran Ghory |
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Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing |
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:09:20 +0000 (GMT) |
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, MJ Ray wrote:
> Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think the term "GNU" should be dropped as it just causes confusion, I my
> > experience a lot of people who aren't techies but aren't newbies either
> > often know what Linux is, but get confused when people say GNU/linux (and
> > also often get confused about the different distros).
>
> Sorry, no dice. Without the GNU software, Linux alone is not much of an
> operating system, is it?
I doubt anyone here is going to disagree with that. But many people,
especialy the current generation of new linux users think that
KDE/Gnome/whatever is a vital part of the OS (in the sense that if the OS
didn't have it they wouldn't use it).
>Further, if not even a Free Software supporting
> group gives the GNU project their credit, what hope is there for anyone else
> doing it?
>From what I understand from http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html the
GNU part is not about "credit" but ensuring people are aware of the
freedoms. In a document which is about free (ais) software we can assume
that people are aware of the freedoms so we can drop the GNU bit.
I think that unless we explain the GNU bit in the text, we should use the
name that people recognize.
Imran
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, (continued)
Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, ralph, 2002/03/10
Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Ramin Nakisa, 2002/03/11
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Imran Ghory, 2002/03/11
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, MJ Ray, 2002/03/11
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing,
Imran Ghory <=
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Martyn Ranyard, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, ralph, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, MJ Ray, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, hobbit, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, MJ Ray, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Alex Hudson, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Imran Ghory, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, Alex Hudson, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, MJ Ray, 2002/03/12
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing, MJ Ray, 2002/03/12