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Re: Irony
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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!
Sometimes it is nice just to say You're Welcome when someone says Thank
You. Going into a diatribe at every occasion just destroys the respect
gained through the original admirable act.
--
Andrew J. Hutton <ajh@steamballoon.com>
Steamballoon Incorporated