Kevin Kreamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's fine, but there's a difference between an article customarily > preceding a name, and one that is part of a name. What I'm saying is > if you really want "the" to be part of the name "GNU Hurd", it should > actually be "The GNU Hurd". Otherwise it's just part of the rest of > those sentences. (And if you say the "the" isn't important enough > to be capitalized, I propose that it isn't important enough to be a > necessary part of the official name.)
"the" isn't a part of the name, the point is that the name is the sort of part of speech which takes "the"--unlike proper names in general, which don't get "the".
