In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > [...] >> Is RMS a socialist?
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/cuba_does_linux/ > ----- > Cuba has launched its own Linux variant, dubbed Nova. > > The Nova project has been cooking away for the past year, and it was > formally unveiled this week at the annual International Conference on > Communication and Technologies in Havana. At last year's conference - a > Microsoft-bash-fest - open source luminary Richard Stallman convinced > attendees to take open source software not only to their heart, but to > their computers. > > The Cuban government, under the auspices of the Universidad de las > Ciencias Inform?ticas (UCI), created Nova by spinning its own rev on the > Gentoo variant of Linux. English speakers will no doubt have fun with > that catchy Nova name, which has turned up in urban mythology involves > other products in Spanish speaking countries, including a Chevy sedan > and some Mexican gasoline. > > The country missed the perfect opportunity to call it Fidelix, and if > they wanted to be technically correct and give a bow to Stallman - the > founder of the Free Software Foundation - they could have called it > GNU/Fidelix. A forward thinking Cuban IT industry might have opted for > Raulix as well. > ----- > LOL Sorry, does that have any relevance to the matter of whether RMS is a socialist? It seems likely he is, but taking a trip to Havana is less than convincing evidence. > regards, > alexander. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
