On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 13:04, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/21 6:56 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > > > > My main problem is that for a good portion of the 1990's the GNU > > operating system was HURD and any and all work on Linux was seen as a > > major distraction and removal of resources from the more important > > operating system. In the early 1990's, I don't remember the GNU > > hackers at the AI lab calling their systems GNU/Solaris or GNU/Ultrix > > or GNU/BSD when they had replaced various parts with GNU utilities. > > > That's partially true, they didn't (as far as I know). But I think they > viewed that situation -- using a kernel other than their own -- as > temporary. As far as I know, they referred to their OS as GNU > consistently, and only started using the variant name GNU/Linux when it > became clear that the arrangement of having a GNU OS with a kernel other > than their own was a long-term arrangement. That all seems very > logical, to me. > > > > People were told that working on Linux was a distraction and should be > > a non-goal instead of working on HURD... > > > As a rationale, your explanation as a whole seems retaliatory, to me. > "The GNU project encouraged its volunteers to work on HURD instead of > Linux, so we'll not speak their name because this makes us unhappy." > > No that is not what I meant. However it is clear that this isn't helping any.. so consider me <plonking> myself from this thread. > That doesn't seem like the kind of respectful, friendly environment that > Fedora explicitly is trying to foster. And that's why I think the name > "Fedora", by itself, is better. That name is neutral to the topic of > whether Linux or GNU/Linux is the OS that Fedora extends, rather than a > statement about our feelings toward the GNU project. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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