On Apr 19, 2009, Richard M Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it make sense to rename this project to, say Librenux, which > hopefully doesn't have this problem in Spanish, and that would rather > sound a bit like Free us! ?
> This would have very bad effects in other ways. > We don't want to present this as something different from Linux. > We want to present it as our version of Linux. Erhm... I'm not sure how inserting a “bre” in the middle conveys the idea that it's something fundamentally different, but maybe the word looks sufficiently different that it does. How about Liñux-libre, then? That's “Linux with a GNU twist”, since en(gnu) = es(ñu) :-) > I suggest contrasting "Linux Libre" with "Linux normal" or with "el > Linux de Torvalds". +1 I refer to Linus' version as “non-Free Linux”. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
