>>>>> "Ghane" == Sanjeev Gupta <Sanjeev> writes:
Ghane> Raj Mathur wrote:
>> If there's an angle I've missed, please feel free to bring it
>> up.
Ghane> Raj, have your views changed over the last 3 years? You
Ghane> were not, IIRC, so FSF-ish.
Ghane> I use the phrase "GNU/Linux" when I refer to Debian, but
Ghane> that is because that is what the Authors named it. I call
Ghane> Raj "Raj", because that is what he refers to himself as.
Ghane> There is no significance I associate with a kingdom or a
Ghane> king when I call him Raj. A name is a label. So Linux is
Ghane> Linux, or GNU/Linux, as a label. There is little point, in
Ghane> my view, in discussing its inner significance.
Argh, please don't bring up the Linux vs GNU/Linux debate here! Call
it whatever you like. I call it Linux, or sometimes GNU/Linux, and
resist strongly efforts to have one particular name shoved down my
throat.
Ghane> Therefore, while Raj may have misled me with the name
Ghane> "DLUG", or "ILUG-D" when I joined, at the end, I am no
Ghane> longer a Linux User on the desktop, and not in Delhi, or
Ghane> even in India. Yet I hang around on the mailing list, and
Ghane> consider myself a member. Why? Because I have percieved
Ghane> common interests, that's why. The members of Lions Club
Ghane> are not large cats, are they? As long as the group and I
Ghane> share common interests, I will consider myself a member.
Nah, skip the nomenclature -- it's not important. And you're right,
it's the common interests that keep us in sync.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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