[ale] OT: Does involve Linus

[Lightner, Jeff]

Maybe if they called the OS Gnunix instead of Linux Linus would be more likely to decry the name?

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael Campbell
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:10 AM
To: justgold79 at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Does involve Linus

Linus *occasionally* doesn't offend people.  RMS seems to revel in it.  His message is basically sound, but his delivery is offputting.  (To wit, his rants about saying "Linux" vs. "Gnu/Linux"; it just comes off as petty and eye-roll worthy.)

And, since I'm proud of this, I say this as an EFF.org member.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com<mailto:justgold79 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Linus is a hero but Stallman is universally railed against, even
though he says the same thing about the word doc format?

Hmmmm....

On 6/24/12, Michael Campbell <michael.campbell at gmail.com<mailto:michael.campbell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Man, I want that as a desktop background so bad.  Unfortunately, my "work
> machine" I often travel to clients with, and as my clients are bankers
> (sometimes the tech guys, sometimes not), I have a feeling someone would
> decide to play the "I'm offended" card on me.
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> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net<mailto:ted at techmachine.net>> wrote:
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>> On Jun 23, 2012, at 11:52 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
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>> Relevant desktop wallpaper: http://i.imgur.com/GBa6y.jpg
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>> Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net<mailto:Ted at Techmachine.net> >
>> Registered GNU/Linux user #413569
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