<html><head></head><body><div>On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 14:09 -0500, leam hall via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Pretty sure I'm covered by "prior art" like "Linux World" conferences,
"Linux Journal" magazine, and at least a few "Linux" books". While the
GNU folks have my undying appreciation I find Richard Stallman's
insistence on prepending "GNU/" in front of everything to be sad. It
seems like someone doing a great job and then yelling at you about how
great a job they did instead of letting you look and say "Wow, what a
great job!"
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Were it not for the work of GNU, there would be no Linux. Stallman has been rather clear in my recollection that a GNU/Linux name refers to the system as a whole. Linux refers to the kernel.</div><div><br></div><div>Stallman may present himself as a crazy old coot, but he's "our crazy old coot". Compare him to Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Woz, Joy, etc. All the others had a huge impact on the business side of technology, i.e., they made a shit ton of money. Stallman changed the world in a tiny, subtle way that led to a paradigm shift of development that led to Linux that led to now.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it should be proudly and loudly called GNU/Linux as long as he is alive and probably for years afterwards. I've fed my family thanks to what he started.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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