Thanks Jim,
Your measured reply was received, and in good cheer.
Jim Cheetham wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
have you now grasped the idea? - there is no proposal from anyone to change "CLUG" in any way, shape, or form.
You proposed a discussion about a possible proposal to ...
But frankly, that doesn't matter. Don't be so defensive! It was interesting to see the FSF are trying to promote the use of "GNU/Linux" in user group naming conventions. Thanks for finding that and mentioning it. Even though you "didn't propose" creating/renaming a "GNU/Linux" user group, the idea was implicit, interesting, and worth discussion. So far a small handful of mailing list members have chosen to comment.
Thanks also for pointing out that there is in fact debate about "Linux" provenance in relation to FSF/GNU - I had found it self-evident.
More than that, I find it useful - clarifying what Free/Libre Open Source Software is at the outset - in preparing for the commercial "Linux" battles to come (viz Volker's point). i.e. how much are RedHat showing Xandros, SuSE et. al. the 'one true path' :-) , & what practise should we be adopting in light of it? "Debian", I guess'd be your answer..
i.e. which is more polite - to attempt an answer & risk provocation, or to make clear by silence that this won't happen.
In an environment whose purpose is discussion, perhaps the former. Provocation does not necessarily have to be adversarial. In an environment where there is no reliable feedback that a message has been received, the latter is problematical.
-jim
See you tomorrow, I hope.
Rik
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