Hi, On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> We cannot give it a name like that. To call a distro "the GNU system > distribution" would come across as a rejection of gNewSense, Trisquel, > etc. Those distros are important contributions to our community, and > promoting them is an important goal for the GNU Project. > > Therefore, my decision is that the GNU Project will not name a distro > by a name that appears to say it is above all other distros in > importance to us. Well, I'd propose a slightly more differentiated view: I share your opinion that the name shouldn't imply it's the one and only true GNU distribution (and thus "GNU system distribution" without any further qualifier would be problematic); however, it should be OK (and in fact desirable) to imply a *somewhat* distinguised position within the GNU project. The other free distros are about making the best of some existing popular third-party GNU-based system distributions; but I'm sure their developers have no illusions of these being true substitutes for a system distribution developed from the ground up out of the middle of the GNU project, in the spirit of what GNU was supposed to be from the get-go. (C and Lisp as system languages, hint hint ;-) ) -antrik-
