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Re: Irony
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:56:49PM +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
>
> Christoph> Right, let the company change it's name because the FSF
> Christoph> Fuehrer wants it!
>
> This is embarrassing! _Everybody_ should accept that Linux is nothing
> without GNU, and that GNU wouldn't be/have an OS without Linux. RMS
> is not asking you to call Linux the "GNU OS", but he's correctly
> requesting that people call a Linux system a "GNU/Linux" system,
> which is a simple way to describe the two parts it consists of.
Everyone knows that and many people disagree with that naming neverless
(including me), but that's not the point here, and it's certainly not needed
to be discussed again and again.
> Please think about your responses first.
Exactly that is the point. The company is callrd "Linux New Media AG".
That might be wrong from the beginning in the GNU doctrine, but by
repeating the arguments again and again it's unlikely to change.
RMS must understand that his opinion is not the only one in the world,
and although he's free to aplain his opinion again and again until
half of the world is annoyed he must respect that. In this case he's of
course free to just give back the award if he thinks it's so grossly
misnamed.