On Monday 06 August 2007 22:48, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:33:43 +0530, Ankur Rohatgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On 06-08-07 10:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> did he agree? if not, you *are* starting a third front > >> > >>> GnuLinux = GNU/Linux > > > > All the talk about 'FREEDOM' and we are not free to call it what we > > want ? If he has to 'sign off' on the name, isnt that hypocrisy ? > > Communication is about, umm, conveying meaning to the people > you are conversing with. If you go about redefining words to have > special meanings known only to you, and contradict the meanings > commonly given to that word; you are not really exercising freedom; > you are just mis-communicating, and in the process, giving the > audience a false impression of the status of the Linux kernel.
> Imagine if I have redefined all the words I use, and the > paragraph above means in normal English "Today is Monday". I agree in general, but in this case the term that Niyam was using (Gnulinux) is: 1. Easily recognisable 2. Unambiguous 3. Clear as to import 4. Sufficiently close to other terms (Linux, GNU/Linux) to be considered a derivate 5. Not a redefinition of anything Further, Niyam gave clear reasons why he uses that term instead of the full GNU/Linux, which convinced me, at least. I for one don't see any reason why he should not continue to use that term till it falls out of his ears if he so desires. Now can we move on to our regular earth-shattering universe-twisting time-and-space continuum discontinuing nature-of-reality disintegrating discussions? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
