On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:18 -0400, Alaska Subedi wrote: > > 2. Responders to his idea seem to believe that he is talking about > > renaming either (1) the community that produces the software, or (2) the > > "system". > > He seems to be talking about renaming the operating system because, to > him, ``just GNU is confusing". OK.
> At the top of www.gnu.org, it says ``The GNU Operating System", True, but usage of GNU says otherwise. In this very thread, someone signed themself "A proud GNU user" or similar. Then they had to recant: they use GNU software, but not a/the GNU OS. If someone highly literate makes that "error" (according to you) what hope have we for the masses? > > 6. All the above leads me to conclude that we should call it (what Barry > > is talking about) the "GNU OS". For those with American accents, this > > of course expands to "(guh) new OS", or "New Operating System". To me > > GNU is a collection of software that embodies and implements > > socio-political principles in addition to IT/CS principles. We should > > distinguish between "a bunch of software" and an operating system. > You are incorrect. GNU is the name of an operating system; it is at > version 0.2. Thanks. Is it available anywhere apart from Alfred's private FTP site? Again, I must re-emphasise my point: Barry (and I) are talking from the point of view of the market for the software, not the producers of the software. -- John Williams Research Analyst Department of Marketing, Otago University http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/marketing/staff/williamsj.html _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
