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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:33:05PM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:17:20PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:48:04AM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: |
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> > > Stallman's claiming credit for all of Linux, anywhere it appears, |
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> > Only when trolls intentionally misinterpret his statements that way. |
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> Why else does he insist that the name of his project be attached to it |
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> whenever and wherever it's mentioned and refuse to have any dealings at all |
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> with anyone who does not? |
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What do you need to have a working system? Linux and the base pieces of |
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GNU. Hence he feels that GNU/Linux is appropriate. If you feel |
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differently, don't say it -- that's straightforward enough. |
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My position is that when I'm talking about the program (a kernel) called |
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'Linux' I say 'Linux,' when I'm talking about things GNU has produced, I |
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say 'GNU,' and when I'm talking about the combination of the two, I say |
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'GNU+Linux.' That seems to be correct in a technical sense. However, |
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that's just how _I_ refer to it. I honestly don't give a damn how _you_ |
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refer to it as long as you do two things: |
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(a) don't care what I choose to say |
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(b) don't bring up irrelevancies whenever you spot a chance to tell |
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everyone how much you dislike RMS |
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For the record, nowhere did he ever claim credit for Linux. Linux is a |
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single program that he had nothing to do with. |
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> > Could you please take trolling to comp.os.linux.advocacy or |
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> > gnu.misc.discuss or some other forum where nobody has anything better to |
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> > do than troll and be trolled? Thanks. |
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> I'm not trolling. These are my honest beliefs, honestly arrived at, and I |
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> believe that Stallmanite misstatements of fact should not be allowed to go |
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> unchallenged. |
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"Beliefs are fine, just don't share them like they're the truth." |
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> ...or are you one of those who assumes that anyone who doesn't toe the |
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> Stallmanite line must automatically be trolling? |
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No, but when somebody takes any opportunity available to take potshots |
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at their personal stress relief ball, it certainly comes off as |
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trolling. |
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> ...or is the Gentoo project another bastion of Stallmanism, like the Debian |
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> Project? |
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WTF? Over. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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