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"Kevyn Shortell" <kevyn@×××.com> writes: |
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> Do a package count, then go find out which ones are GNU. You'd be |
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> surprised, how many aren't.Then go look at the GNU web page, and see |
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> how many packages, Didn't used to be under the GNU banner, and now |
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> are. Seems a little like Microsoft to me. |
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Hu? When projects decide to be part of the GNU project, the GNU |
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project "seems a little like Microsoft"? Weird. |
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> If RMS truly wanted to evangelize the benefits of GNU, why isn't he |
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> trying to get more sites to have information about GNU on their |
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> site? |
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Give an example, I can hardly imagine what you are thinking of. |
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> Why is he trying to change the name of every dist on the planet? |
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s/every dist/distributions built in top of GNU + Linux/ |
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> So why such a large push from RMS to do this? And yes it is a large |
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> push, When RMS hunts down a mailing list for dists and mails there, |
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> as opposed to posting an email to the people who run the dist, it is |
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> very deliberate. |
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Why should he mail the users? The developers decide which name a |
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project has, not the users. And I also don't see why he is "hunting |
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down a mailing list". |
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> Think about it, at what point does GNU become what they were founded |
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> to fight against? |
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The GNU project was founded to develop a free operating software, to |
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develop free software in general, to establish the free software |
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movement, etc. I don't get your point. |
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> It's like any Ford small truck, The engine and transmission is made |
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> by Mazda. Does Mazda require Ford to call the truck a Mazda/Ford |
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> Ranger? |
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GNU does not "require" anyone to use GNU in their name, I don't know |
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where you get that from. It is simply a matter of helping, of |
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supporting and of giving credits. In this movement, or this scene, |
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such things are very important. Ford has simply bought something from |
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Mazda, that's why Mazda has no reason to ask Ford to use "Mazda" in |
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the name. |
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> No he keeps building the GNU empire and claims to be doing for the |
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> benefit of the community. |
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"GNU empire" seems like a contradiction to me. |
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> So how does causing animosity and resentment benefit the community? |
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Sorry, I cannot follow your conclusions. |
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moritz |
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moritz@×××××××××××××××.de - http://duesseldorf.ccc.de/~moritz/ |
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