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Re: Irony
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:03:15 +0000
- Subject: Re: Irony
- References: <E18Hmge-0002BD-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> One of the sad ironies of the GNU Project is that people give us
> awards in the name of "Linux"--not realizing that the system they are
> talking about is GNU. Where an award is meant to honor people's work,
> this one actually minimizes our work. (For more explanation, see
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.) They also describe our
> community as "open source", connecting GCC with the wrong movement.
> (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html.)
>
> I'm going to write to Rosemarie Schuster politely to ask them to help
> straighten out these confusions.
Right, let the company change it's name because the FSF Fuehrer wants it!