On Saturday July 16 2005 00:36, Adam J. Hogan spake: > I am a relatively new user (about six months) in BR. I now it's popular > to call this kind of user group a LUG, but was wondering why you have > chosen to neglect the GNU operating system in naming the group.
It sure didn't take you long to fall in with the wrong crowd, did it? Lemme guess, you run GNU/Debian, right? Linus Torvalds (you know, the guy that wrote Linux) gets offended when RMS tries to push that "GNU/" nonsense, so you might take a hint. Linus calls it Linux. IBM, Oracle, Novell, Microsoft, SCO, NYSE, NASA, and every other company and organization of note calls it Linux. Several countries (Germany India, Israel, China, etc.) call it Linux. Every distribution save Debian calls it Linux, to my knowledge. There are probably zero "GNU/Linux User Groups" in existence. I am all for free software. I've written several applications that were released under the GPL. As a frequent Linux + OSS lecturer, I often warn people of the dangers of writing or using non-free software (anyone remember the appgen fiasco?). However, when someone starts insisting that I prepend "GNU/" to the name of my beloved Linux operating system, it really annoys me. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050716/65eb9802/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 16 12:58:08 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hill) Date: Sat Jul 16 12:57:39 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] GNU/Linux User Group? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Exactly. So why create confusion with a name change? On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:18 pm, Scott Harney wrote: > BRLUG or BRG/LUG? ?Whatever. ?It's just not that big a deal in my book.
