On 03/23/2018 03:23 PM, KRT Listmaster wrote: > GNU would fail this same criterion if proposed today. Just a thought.
great point - i think it gets right to the core of that somewhat vague criteria - although indefinite, the intention is clearly to avoid confusion - there is no reasonable confusion in the name "GNU is not UINX" - that is very explicitly a disclaimer of any association - similarly "Free-Slack is not Slackware" should be as acceptable as "GNU"; whereas "Free-Slackware" could be easily mis-interpreted - "Free-Slack" falls in the grey area between because "slack" is a common short-hand or nickname for "slackware" but i will add that, if taken to the extreme interpretation, the same is true for *every* distro that ends with *nix and i dont think anyone is confused that any of them actually *are* associated with UNIX or bell labs, nor that they are even attempting to imply any such thing - after-all, the FSF endorsed "musix" - the *ix in that name is surely not arbitrary; but a tip of the hat to UNIX - and musix was not expected to disclaim that: "musix is not a musical unix" "GNU" could be more accurately presented as "GNU is not UNIX - (but it is very much like UNIX)" - fully acknowledging their work *by name*; but still with no reasonable confusion or implications of association - the manor of presentation seems to be very important here; so im not so sure if this criteria could be made to be both rigid and comprehensive
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