[NTLUG:Discuss] RMS's Speach

[MadHat]

I hope everyone knows this is an old religious war, like vi vs. emacs, or 
linux vs BSD.
There is no way to really win. It's just a personal preference.


At 06:14 PM 1/17/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I agree with his reasoning to wanting to call it GNU/Linux. The GNU project
>as he talked about was ongoing throughout the 1980's. GNU utilities and
>programs are abundant throughout all the 'GNU/Linux' distros. The kernel
>while is the main 'engine' of the OS it is just one piece of the pie while
>the GNU software make up many therefore I can see how the GNU project feels
>like it lacks certain credit after all the whole point was to bring about a
>free OS available to all for 'free' and  the linux kernel allowed for the
>final piece to be put in place just as the GNU programs and utilities
>allowed for the linux kernel to become part of a whole pie that formed a
>Unix like operating system that we all use and love.
>
>There's many many other reasons and ideals I could talk about too but I
>think the reason above by itself is justification enough for those involved
>in the FSF to feel that way. As far as the picking of teeth goes it's his
>speech he's one of the last of the MIT hackers so if he wants to pick his
>nose that's fine with me.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
>Of Lance Simmons
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:36 PM
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] RMS's Speach
>
>
>I think he's wrong to insist on calling it GNU/Linux. When I first
>became interested in linux, it was primarily because I was frustrated
>with Microsoft, and I'd read about this thing called linux. As I got
>further into it, and saw how the software is actually developed (I'm
>just an end user), I became interested in the philosophy behind it, and
>now find myself more or less in agreement with rms on most things--but
>I don't try to make a living writing software.
>
>If linux had initially been presented to me as requiring a whole
>political philosophy, I (think I) probably would have kept looking.
>Calling it linux instead of GNU/Linux is like having "youth groups" at
>church instead of "indoctrination meetings". People will go to the one
>who wouldn't go to the other, but you often get the same end result:
>someone who has the same kinds of beliefs as the people who run the
>meetings.
>
>I liked the talk, but I have to say I've never had to wait, at length
>and repeatedly, for a speaker to pick at his teeth. That seemed a bit
>too idiot savant-ish.
>
>Lance Simmons
>
>On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:36:20PM -0600, WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm curious what others thought of RMS's speach last night. I thoroughly
> > enjoyed it and can't wait for him to return to Dallas sometime.
> >
> > William Pearson
> >
> >
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