On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 14:46 +0530, 0 wrote: > > So let us promote - and encourage others to promote - Linux (or, if > you > > so desire GNU/Linux. > > In my opinion, fragmenting the Linux brand as Ubuntu or Android or > other > brands is a good thing. For long, one person has embezzled the credit > for the work of the entire community.
<quote> Linus Torvalds shared the Linux kernel on some internet groups for MINIX users. Linus first called the operating system "Freax". The name Freax came from joining up the English words "free" and "freak", and adding an X to the name because Unix has an X in its name. Ari Lemmke, who worked with Linus at the University, was responsible for the servers that Freax was stored on. Ari did not think Freax was a good name, so he called the project "Linux" without asking Linus. Later, Linus agreed that Linux was a better name for his project. </quote> <quote> Embezzlement is the act of dishonestly withholding assets for the purpose of conversion (theft), of such assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted, to be held and/or used for other purposes. </quote> <quote> The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as "contextomy" or "quote mining", is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. </quote> The context in this post is the huge financial and propaganda effort being put in by Microsoft to prevent the spread of linux (or call it open source or foss) - it is not the ongoing quarrel between various people on the assignment of credit for creating parts of the open source software ecosystem. If you want to have a thread on that subject feel free to start your own. [...] > Even though, I support RMS on GNU/Linux name, to fully represent the > end > product, the name should be totally random or a representation of the > community as a whole. unfortunately the train left the station 20 years back. > > I would say promote Linux as a product but not as a brand. whatever this means -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
