On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Robert Martinez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you're stirring up everybody becauseyou say things like: > > "I wanted to launch GNU anew with the focus being primarily on the goal of > freedom." > But GNU already HAS the primary goal of freedom! > I believe your point is to create a label that transports the value more > clearly. > And i must say i thought about that sometimes, too: > The OSI has a sticker that indicates stuff that is open source with the > green cut open "O". > Nothing like that exists for free software. > But then again you should see that you don't want to "relaunch" GNU, since > GNU is Not Unix, and is a big project. > Ah sorry, I think I was unclear. When I said "relaunch" I only meant it in an advertising/publicity sense. The system itself would not be new, and would not have been written from scratch! Rather, I think since GNU is so unheard of these days, it could be a neat trick to "launch" it as a "new" operating system, which looks like a distribution of "Linux" but is better not for technical reasons but for moral reasons.
