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Re: Irony


    > 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!

It is evident that the person has seen, and attacked, something very
different from what I actually said.  A pattern of attacking certain
people for things they have not said or done is the hallmark of
prejudice.



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