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Re: Irony
- From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:18:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: Irony
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure (quatramaran)
In article <E18Hmge-0002BD-00@fencepost.gnu.org> you write:
>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.
What does this have to do with the gcc mailing-list ?
You know that, by saying this here, you're going to start yet another
flamewar.
This forum of discussion is clearly totally inappropriate for that
discussion. Let us just say that some of us clearly disagree with this,
and I don't see at all why you are stating *this* on *this specific list*.
--
Marc Espie, senior developer, OpenBSD project
See http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html if you need more details
about what *I* believe in.